She Cost Me Seven-and-Sixpence 1904

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 August 2012
2012

It's just six months ago
since I got married
to a woman at Peckham Rye,
But I could not have had much sense
for she cost me
seven shillings and six pence

She cost me seven and six pence.
She cost me seven and six pence,
She cost me seven and six pence,
I wish I'd bought a dog!

We've a big milk pail, you see,
where mother keeps her milk,
but she left the lid off yesterday
and when I came home,
strange to say

A mouse was in that milkpail,
A mouse was in that milkpail,
A mouse was in that milkpail,
So I threw our tom cat in.

My Pa and I went out one day
and down the country roads did stray
A bull dashed out of a field, you see,
and the farmer shouted out to me.

Don't let him see anything red, sir!
Don't let him see anything red, sir!
Don't let him see anything red, sir!
So I covered up father's nose.

I saw a cat in a house one day
That cat had no tail, strange to say,
I said: "What's wrong with that poor cat?"
They said: "It's Manx,
they're all like that!"

I said: "I never knew it!"
I said: "I never knew it!"
I said: "I never knew it!
It's a Manx shirt I've got on!"

The hidden treasure craze I've got,
A clue said: "Go to the shady spot."
Where some birds on a tree you'll see
then look up at the birds
that are on that tree.

I looked up for that treasure,
I looked up for that treasure,
I looked up for that treasure,
Has anybody got a match?

A girl I courted years ago
got married to a man named Joe.
last week I met her in a train,
I said: "Have you got any family Jane?"

She said: "I've got six, thank you!"
She said: "I've got six, thank you!"
She said: "I've got six, thank you!"
I said: "Oh, don't thank me."

A tramp called round at our house once
said he: "I've had no food for months."
I said: "I know that's very hard,
but just go round to our back yard.

My father's in the pigsty,
My father's in the pigsty,
My father's in the pigsty,
You'll know him by his hat.

A pal of mine once said to me
"Will you knock me up at half past three?"
I said: "Yes," so at half past one
I knocked him up and said: "Oh, John,

I've just come round to tell you,
I've just come round to tell you,
I've just come round to tell you,
You've two more hours to sleep!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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She Cost Me Seven-and-Sixpence 1904
sung by Wilkie Bard & Sam Mayo
© 1904 by Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.  London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 10 August 2012 at 14.40
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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