Oh! Amelia 1929

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 Aug 2013
2013

I shan't forget the wedding
of Amelia Magee,
she got anchor'd to her sailor boy
who had just come home from sea;
The Parson said to Amelia
"You've joined the Navy now,
you know what sailors are,
they never break their marriage vow."
The bridegroom gave the bride a kiss,
and the bells began to ring,
the organ played the wedding march
and the choir began to sing:

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

Outside the church
the lads and lasses
waited for the bride,
when they sang
The Gypsy's Warning to her
she laughed until she cried;
The bridal pair and the crowd
got mixed up like an Irish stew,
There never were such doings
since the battle of Waterloo.
When they went in The Rose and Crown
for the christ'ning of the ring,
Jack said: "I want my honeymoon,"
when his pals began to sing:

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

The ruins Cromwell knocked about
were not to be compared
with Amelia when she came home,
on my word she did look scared;
Her mother said to the bridegroom
when she saw the blushing bride,
"She looks just like
a softroed bloater
after it's been fried.
Inside the house
an old green parrot
was perched upon the ring,
He caught sight of Amelia
and that bird began to sing.

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

Oh, Amelia!
You look merry and bright,
Oh, Amelia!
tonight's the night.
To the bridegroom
they began to yell:
"Jack's a jolly old Sea Dog
and a Sporty Dog as well."
All the neighbours said
as the bride walked down the aisle:
"She looks so innocent and shy,"
but when she came back
from her honeymoon with Jack,
She looked more like
the ruins of Pompeii.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Oh! Amelia 1929
words & music by Len E.Graham & George W.Crump
© 1929
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 6 August 2013 at 16.46
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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