A Marrow's A Banana's Father 1926

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 27 May 2002

Ev'rybody knows a cow
is Mister Bovril's wife,
and ev'rybody knows
a pugilist is full of strife.
We all know that a donkey
keeps shouting out heehaw,
but here's a little secret
that you've never heard before.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

When is beauty unadorn'd,
why when it's got no clothes,
and when a parson's eating fowl
he has the parson's nose.
A sailor's fond of water,
when there's no pub in sight,
And what did Sarah tell
her soldier boy the other night:

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

When the moon's behind a cloud
of course it's out of sight,
and when a black man's hair turns grey,
of course he's black and white.
And when the dear old landlord
called round the other day,
I said: "I'm glad you called
old dear because I want to say:"

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A racehorse is an animal
that races we all know,
sometimes it runs so fast
it runs away with all our 'dough.'
Lord Nelson is a hero,
and a joker understand,
'cos you can hear him singing
to the people in The Strand:

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

When a chicken lays an egg
she's proud of it it's true,
but who does all the crowing, why,
the cockadoodledoo.
And when you're at a christening
and you're the proud papa,
just hold the kid up in your arms
and shout to his mama:

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

A Marrow's A Banana's Father,
A marrow's a banana's dad,
it started life as a gherkin,
so it hasn't done so bad.
So if you slip on a banana,
remember this my lad,
A marrow's a banana's father,
a marrow's a banana's dad.

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A Marrow's A Bananas's Father 1926
by Herbert Rule and Thos. McGhee
copyright MCMXXVI by The Lawrence Wright Music Co., London
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Monday 27 May 2002 at 18.10
in association with Doug Grierson
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