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Subject: Lyr Add: YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP ON SHOWING IT From: PKD on Teesside Date: 27 Jun 98 - 05:48 AM I wonder if anyone can help. My grandfather used to sing this little bit of music hall doggerel to me when I was 2, 3, 4 years old. When I started school, after the teacher had taught us all Ba Ba Black Sheep and the like, she asked if anyone knew any nice songs, and I sang her this. This irreparably damaged my education !!! The song is called "You Don't Want To Keep On Showing It, Mary" and what I can remember of it is given below. If anyone can add any verses, or correct the ones I can remember, I would be very grateful. You Don't Want To Keep On Showing It, Mary Now to talk about your wife, well I know it is a sin But I don't mind telling you me wife drinks gin She drinks so much that her nose shines bright In the dark you would take it for a moonlight night One night last week she had a little too much So I toddled off to bed Under the clothes I poked me nose In the dark I commenced to doze Oh what a fright in the middle of the night When she started blowing it She blew me out of bed so to her I said "You don't want to keep on showing it" "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it Now a week or two ago, what do you suppose I got into trouble over Mary's nose The man and the woman that lived next door In the middle of the night caused a great uproar They said that Mary's nose had been and bored a hole Through the wall into their bed Shouted "Fire!" with all their might In the middle of the night So to Mary Jane I said "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it The fireman came in the room with his hose Started squirting on Mary's nose She began to scream, her nose began to steam And it boiled all the water you could throw on it The fireman said "You're blistering me leg "And you don't want to keep on showing it" "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it" Cheers Paul |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req - Don't Want to Keep on Showing It From: Ralph Butts Date: 27 Jun 98 - 06:59 AM Hi, PK...... No, I can't help, but it sure sounds like one I'd like to get my hands on. What's the melody? .....Tiger |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req - Don't Want to Keep on Showing It From: Moira Cameron Date: 28 Jun 98 - 11:16 PM The song was recorded by the duo Cosmotheka. I'll try and give another listen to the album and fill in the blanks for you. It looks like you have remembered a lot of it though. Cosmotheka, by the way, are a great source for Music Hall songs. I'd really recommend them for anyone interested in this kind of thing. I don't know it they're still singing together. I'll get the album info as well for anyone who's interested. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP ON SHOWING IT From: Moira Cameron Date: 25 Jul 98 - 08:15 PM Here it is, at long last. YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP ON SHOWING IT (Cosmotheka--"A Little Bit off the Top"; 1974) Now to talk about me wife, well I know it is a sin But I don't mind telling you me wife drinks gin It's coloured her nose and it looks such a fright In the dark you would take it for a moonlight night One night she did a little too much so I toddled off to bed She blew out the light, and her nose shone bright, so to Mary Jane I said, "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it." Well under her clothes she poked her nose In the dark I commenced to doze Oh what a fright in the middle of the night When she started blowing it 'Cause she blew me out of bed so again I said "You don't want to keep on showing it". Now one day I took her out to Barnet Fair My word! Didn't all the people stare! Spotting her nose, they laughed and they said, "Gov'nor, did you pick it from a strawberry bed?" A big wooden ball from a coconut stall at Mary's nose got shied-- They took the old gal for an old Aunt Sal so again to her I cried, "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it." Well, I bunkered up for a donkey ride; The donkey spotted her nose and he shied. She fell upon her head when a policeman said "Blimey, ain't you going it? Well, you better get some clothes for to cover up your nose 'Cause you don't want to keep on showing it!" Well, walking down the lane on a very dark night, Poor Mary's nose was shining bright, A man with a gun came passing by, Shot Mary's nose for a big bar fly We was bolting again for the railway train when the guard stuck out his head He said "Danger on the Line!" I said, "Not this time!" but again to her I said... "You don't want to keep on showing it, Mary "You don't want to keep on showing it." She hid it again in the railway train The boys and the girls, they was having a game. Oh what a lark in the tunnel in the dark We were not long in knowing it, Cause they all began to shout "Put it out, put it out, You don't want to keep on showing it." |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req - Don't Want to Keep on Showing It From: PKD on Teesside Date: 27 Jul 98 - 02:52 PM Moira, Many many thanks. I've never heard anyone sing it, or heard of anyone singing it apart from my grandad. I think some of the gaps are mine & some are his - some of the bits I haven't got feel familiar. Cheers ! Paul |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req - Don't Want to Keep on Showing It From: Brack& Date: 27 Jul 98 - 08:32 PM Cosmotheka, didn't they play on a Chas & Dave Special on TV when Eric Clapton also played. I think they did a song called Jemima. Eric played Irene Goodnight. |
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req - Don't Want to Keep on Showing It From: Moira Cameron Date: 28 Jul 98 - 06:19 PM I'm afraid I don't know very much about the duo. My husband picked up two of their albums when they performed several years ago in Alberta. They have recorded several music hall songs, most of the time in close two part harmonies, and all acapella. I don't know if they are still together. |
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