{"id":5405,"date":"2020-09-27T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=5405"},"modified":"2024-02-24T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T08:06:33","slug":"fellow-that-looks-like-me-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/fellow-that-looks-like-me-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow that looks like me, The."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Feller\/Fellar that looks …<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>ca 1860<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>GW Hunt<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>GW Hunt<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN2187<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Henri Clark (1840-1905)
Queen’s Minstrels (aka Original Christy Minstrels)
(Tony Pastor 1832-1908)
William Lingard (1838- 1927)<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Weston, Matt 1919 USA : Arkansas
unknown singer 1926 USA : Brown County
The Hill Billies \/ Al Hopkins & his Buckle 1927 USA : Washington DC
Murphy, Alexander 1928 Canada, Nova Scotia
Lorette, Paul 1930 USA : Vermont
Abbott, Beryl Haynes 1930s USA : Michigan
Fish, Lena Bourne 1940\/1 USA : New Hampshire
Jenness, Oliver 1941 USA : Maine
Roast, Walter 1943 Canada : Nova Scotia
Wakefield, Milas E. 1948 USA : Utah
Waugh, Harry 1949 USA : Pennsylvania
Whittington, B.J. 1950 USA : Arkansas
O’Brien, Cyril 1950\/1 Canada : Newfoundland
Abbott, O.J. 1957 Canada : Quebec
Wood, Jane 1961 USA : Arkansas
Legg, Tom 1973 Canada : Newfoundland <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hunt's version<\/strong>\nFrom Broadside ca1860?<\/strong>\n \nI\u2019m in a deal of trouble, yes!\nThe cause of it\u2019s you see,\nThere\u2019s some confounded fellow, who\nThe image is of me.\nMy Christian appellation\u2019s \u201cJames\u201d\nThe other fellow\u2019s \u201cJim\u201d\nAnd they\u2019re always taking him from me,\nOr else taking me for him\n \nBut only let me catch him<\/em>\nBy jingo if I catch him,<\/em>\nOh shouldn\u2019t I like to catch him,<\/em>\nThat fellow that looks like me.<\/em>\n\nWhen out I\u2019m often stopped and asked,\nSome long account to pay,\nAnd though I tell them I\u2019m not him\nThey don\u2019t care what I say,\nWhilst walking with the girl I love,\nAlas! I\u2019d not gone far,\nWhen a woman brings a babe to me,\nAnd says \u2018There! Kiss your Pa!\u2019\n \nSPOKEN: A splendid joke that, before ones affianced too, I said \u201cRemove this infant immediately!\u201d \u201cOh!\u201d she says, \u201cDon\u2019t be cross Jim!\n \n[Chorus]\n \nI was out strolling the other day,\nIn peaceful frame of mind,\nWhen I received to my dismay,\nA terrible blow behind.\nTo see whom my assailant was,\nOf course I soon turned round,\nWhen my nose ran up against a fist,\nAnd I went to the ground.\n \nSPOKEN: To find an old gentleman in a towering passion saying \u201cYou rascal how dare you make love to my daughter,\u201d Me? It\u2019s not me! \u201cIt must be that other fellow Jim\u201d\n \n[Chorus]\n \nTwas only yesterday I called,\nTo see my intended bride,\nWhen oh! She told me such a tale.\nI thought I should have died,\nFor when she opened the door she stared,\nAnd as I gave her lips a smack,\nSaid she: \u201cWhy what has happened dear?\u201d\nand \u201cWhat has brought you back?\u201d\n \nSPOKEN: \u201cBrought me back love? Why I haven\u2019t seen you for two whole days\u201d \u2013 \u201cYou haven\u2019t\u201d says she \u201cWell then someone the image of you\u2019s been here kissing me\u201d \u2013 that Jim again-\n \n[Chorus]\n \nOf course I\u2019d like to marry, but\nI really feel afraid,\nFor fear some very awkward kind of\nMistakes might be made.\nI must linger in my misery,\nAnxiety and woes,\nUntil this other fellow Jim\nTurns up his wretched toes\n\n\nAs sung by Tony Pastor \"to great applause\" from a broadside ca1860-70<\/strong>\nIn sad despair I wander,\nMy heart is filled with woe,\nWhen on my griefs I ponder,\nWhat to do? I do not know;\nFor cruel fate does on me frown,\nAnd the trouble seems to be,\nThere's another fellow in this ere town\nThat's just the image of me.\n\nOh! wouldn't I like to catch him,\nWhoever he may be,\nOh! wouldn't I give him particular fits\nThat fellow who looks like me<\/em>\n\nWith a lady fair I started,\nTo the Central Park to go,\nBut was stopped in the streets by a man,\nWho said: Pay this bill you owe;\nIn vain I said, I know you not,\nHe wouldn't let me free\nTill a crowd came round and the bill I paid,\nFor the fellow that looks like me. \n\nThe other day--while walking\nThrough a narrow street up town,\nI was seized by a man in a rage,\nWho said: I've caught you Mr. Brown;\nYou know my daughter you have wronged,\nThough this gal I never did see,\nHe beat me till I was black and blue,\nFor the fellow that looks like me.  \n\nOne evening I sat sparking\nA girl as dear as life,\nWhen a lady who had just dropped in,\nSays: Brown how is your wife;\nIn vain I said I'm a single man,\nThough married I wish to be,\nThey called me a swindler and kicked me out,\nFor the fellow that looks like me. \n\nUnto a ball one night I went,\nAnd was just enjoying the sport,\nWhen a Policeman grabbed me by the arm,\nSaving: You're wanted down at court;\nYou're escaped me twice but this ere time,\nI'll take care you shan't get free,\nSo I was arrested, and dragged to jail,\nFor the fellow that looks like me.\n\nI was tried next day, found guilty, too,\nAnd about to be taken down,\nWhen another Policeman then brought in,\nThe right criminal, Mr. Brown;\nThey set me free and locked up him,\nOh! he was a sight to see,\nThe ugliest wretch that ever I saw,\nWas the fellow that looked like me. <\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The fellow that looked like me<\/em> appears to refer to three distinct comic pieces performed in the Halls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n