Music hall songs

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Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. They number in their thousands and include the following:

• "Any Old Iron" (music by Charles Collins; lyrics by Terry Sheppard) sung by Harry Champion.
• "Boiled Beef and Carrots" (Charles Collins and Fred Murray) sung by Harry Champion.
• "The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery" (George Ware) sung by Nellie Power and Marie Lloyd.
• "Burlington Bertie from Bow" (William Hargreaves) sung by Ella Shields.
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow" (Joseph Tabrar) sung by Vesta Victoria.
• "Daisy Bell" (Harry Dacre) sung by Katie Lawrence.
• "Down at the Old Bull and Bush" (music by Harry von Tilzer; lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling) sung by Florrie Forde.
• "Goodbye, Dolly Grey" (Paul Barnes; Will. D. Cobb) sung by George Lashwood.
• "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" (C.W. Murphy and Will Letters) sung by Florrie Ford.
• "Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend?" (music by Harry Fragson; lyrics by Worton David and Bert Lee) sung by Mark Sheridan.
• "Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy" (C.W. Murphy and Will Letters) sung by Florrie Ford.
• "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" (1911) [1] (Fred Murray and Bert Weston) sung by Harry Champion.
• "I Live in Trafalgar Square" (C.W. Murphy) sung by Morny Cash.
• "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (music by George Le Brunn; lyrics by Edgar Bateman) sung by Gus Elen.
• "It's a Bit of a Ruin That Cromwell Knocked About a Bit" (Harry Bedford; Terry Sullivan) sung by Marie Lloyd.
• "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (1914) [2] (Jack Judge and Harry Williams) sung by Florrie Forde.
• "Let's All Go Down the Strand" (Harry Castling and C.W. Murphy) sung by Charles R. Whittle.
• "My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)" (Charles Collins and Fred W. Leigh) sung by Marie Lloyd.
• "Oh! It's a lovely war" sung by Ella Shields.
• "Oh, Mr. Porter" (music by George Le Brunn; lyrics by Thomas Le Brunn) sung by Marie Lloyd.
• "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" (Harry J. Sayers) sung by Lottie Collins.
• "The Man Who Broke the Bank of Monte Carlo" (Fred Gilbert) sung by Charles Coborn.
• "When Father Papered the Parlour" (Weston and Barnes) sung by Billy Williams.
• "Where Did You Get That Hat?" (James Rolmaz) sung by J.C Heffron.
• "Waiting At The Church" [3] (Henry E. Pether; Frank W. Leigh) sung by Vesta Victoria.

[edit] References

Peter Gammond (1971) Your Own, Your Very Own!: A Music Hall Scrapbook. London: Ian Allan