Subject: Lyr Add: I'M HENERY THE EIGHTH I AM (Murray,Weston
From:
Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 07:42 PM
You can hear this recording at YouTube or at the Internet Archive. I have listened, compared it to the version in the DT, and boldfaced the differences:
I'M HENERY THE EIGHTH I AM
Written by Fred Murray & Robert P Weston, 1910.
As recorded by Harry Champion, 1911
1. You don't know who you're looking at. Now just you look at me!
I'm a bit of a nob, I am, belong to royalty.
I'll tell you how it got about: I married Widow Burch.
I was King of England when we trotted out of church.
Outside the people started shouting, "Hip, hooray!"
Said I, "Go down upon your knees. It's Coronation Day!"
CHORUS: I'm Henery the Eighth, I am!
Henery the Eighth, I am, I am!
I got married to the widow next door.
She's been married seven times before.
Every one was a Henery.
She wouldn't have a Willie* or a Sam.
I'm her eighth old man named Henery.
Henery the Eighth I am.
2. I left the Duke of Cumberland, a pub up in the town.
Soon with one or two monarchs I was holding up me Crown.
Seated on the bucket what the carmen call their own,
Surrounded by me subjects, I was sitting on the throne.
Out came the potman. He said, "Now get off to bed."
Said I, "Now say another word, and off'll go your head!"
3. The undertaker called and to the wife I heard him say:
"Have you got any orders, mum? We're very slack today.
I packed up number seven for you, for the Golden Gates.
Let's have a pound upon accounts of Henery the Eighth.
Oh, when he measured me with half a yard of string,
I dropped upon me marrowbones and sang "God Save the King."
* On some repetitions of the chorus, substitute "William."
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