It's A Great Big Shame.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. Nov 2000.

I've lost my pal, 'e's the best in all the tahn,
but don't you fink 'im dead, becos 'e ain't,

But since 'e's wed 'e as 'ad to 'nuckle dahn,
it's enuf ter wex the temper of a saint!

'e's a brewer's drayman, wiv a leg o' mutton fist,
an' as strong as a bullick or an' 'orse.

Yet in 'er 'ands 'e's like a little kid,
Oh! I wish as I could get 'im a divorce.

It's a great big shame, an' if she belong'd ter me,
I'd let 'er know who's who,

naggin' at a feller wot is six foot free,
and 'er not four foot two!

Oh! they 'adn't been married not a month nor more,
when underneath her fumb goes Jim.

Isn't it a pity as the likes ov 'er,
should put upon the likes ov 'im?

Now Jim was class, 'e could sing a decent song,
and at scrappin' 'e 'ad won some great renown;

it took two coppers for ter make 'im move along,
and anuvver six to 'old the feller dahn.

But today when I axes would 'e come an' 'ave some beer,
to the doorstep on tiptoe 'e arrives;

"I daren't", says 'e, "don't shout 'cos she'll 'ear,
I gotter clean the windows an' the knives."

It's a great big shame, an' if she belong'd ter me,
I'd let 'er know who's who,

naggin' at a feller wot is six foot free,
and 'er not four foot two!

Oh! they 'adn't been married not a month nor more,
when underneath her fumb goes Jim.

Isn't it a pity as the likes ov 'er
should put up on the likes ov 'im?

On Sunday morn, wiv a dozen pals or more,
'e'd play at pitch and toss along The Lea;

But now she bullies 'im a scrubbin' o' the floor,
such a change, well, I never did see.

Wiv' a apron on 'im, I twigged 'im, on 'is knees
a rubbin' up the old 'arf stone;

wot wiv emptyin' the ashes and a shellin' o' the peas,
I'm blowed if 'e can call 'isself 'is own!

It's a great big shame, an' if she belong'd ter me,
I'd let 'er know who's who,

naggin' at a feller wot is six foot free,
and 'er not four foot two!

Oh! they 'adn't been married not a month nor more,
when underneath her fumb goes Jim.

Isn't it a pity as the likes ov 'er,
should put upon the likes ov 'im?

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It's A Great Big Shame Music-Hall seq Dr. Pitt-Payne 16 Nov 2000

It's A Great Big Shame
Music Hall
Sung by Mr. Gus Elen
Written by Edgar Bateman
Composed by Geo. Le Brun
MIDI Info
Researched by Doug Grierson
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne 16 Nov 2000
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones