From Poverty Street To Golden Square 1908 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19Dec2013
2013

At the bottom of Adversity Hill
There's a place called Poverty Street,
and if you should live there
the world's very hard
and a friend you will seldom meet.
The sun of prosperity rarely shines
and all in dark down there.
No one seems to have a friend at all,
for friendship is so rare.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

If you're living in Prosperity Street
then you'll find the people so kind;
they say what a jolly good fellow you are,
if you rise you will bear in mind;
It's not always you,
but it's what you have,
to give, or lend, or spend;
when you're poor
it's very hard to find
the one who is your friend.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

If you're living on Prosperity Hill
or that place called Poverty Street;
Then you must remember,
a man is a man,
when a pal who is broke you meet:
It isn't the coat he wears makes a man,
but it's the heart inside;
help a friend,
you might want one yourself,
the world is very wide.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

When you're living down in Poverty Street
nobody knocks at your door!
When you're living down in Poverty Street,
Folks all know you're poor.
But when your bit of silver
turns into gold,
It drives away all care,
then you'll find that
ev'rybody's knocking at your door,
when you're living in Golden Square.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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From Poverty Street To Golden Square 1908 JPitt-Payne
Sung by Kate Karney in Music Halls
Music by Herbert Rule revised by Dudley E. Bayford
Lyrics by Paul Pelham & Herbert Rule
© 1908 by B. Feldman & Co.  London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 19 December 2013 at 17.37
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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