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#15086
01/11/2001 8:52 PM
  
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Pooh-Bah 
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Pooh-Bah 
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the only line i remember for the English version went He fell on pile of... Shine your button with Brass-o, Its only tu'pence a tin, You can by it, or nick it from Woolworths
 This one really brings back memories of my schooldays, when it was a great favourite.  The full version, as sung at Latymer Upper School, is as follows: My ole man was a lavatory cleaner, 'e cleaned them ev-ery night And when 'e came 'ome in the morning 'e was covered all over in -      Burnish your buttons with Brasso      It's only free-ha'pence a tin;      You can buy it or swipe it from Woolworths      But I doubt if they've got any in.
  Some say that 'e died orv a fever, And some say that 'e died orv a fit; But I know very well what 'e died orv - 'e died of the smell of the -    Burnish your buttons wiv Brasso       etc   etc.
  As for What a mouth, what a mouth, what an awfull mouth he had!...." about a the guy who fell asleep with his jaw agape, and the coal truck filled it, ... , this is , I thinka traditional song that was adapted for use in "Half a sixpence" - the stage musical version of H.G.Wells' "Kipps" and sung by the inimitable Tommy Steele ( who I remember singing in a "Skiffle Group" back in the sixties, in a Coffee Bar in Soho, London) I can't remember the whole lyric, but the chorus went something like this:-
  What a mahf (mouth), what a mahf, what a norf an' sarf Blimey! what a mahf 'e'd got. It looked just like a steamboat funnel or a railway arch or the Blackwall Tunnel - - - -
  What a mahf (mouth), what a mahf, what a norf an' sarf 'e's never bin known to larf. If 'e did, it's a penny to a quid 'Is face would fall in 'alf.
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
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