Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton - 1934

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 23 Jul 2001

Two little lambs
Were in a field of clover,
A helamb and a shelamb,
I'll explain;
The shelamb gave the helamb
The 'onceover'
Then tenderly
She bleated this refrain:

Will you love me when I'm mutton
As you do now I am lamb?
Baa baa black sheep,
Tell me do!
Tell me do!
Will you love me
When I'm mutton
Like a true and faithful Ram,
Or will you tell me
I'm too tough to chew?
When my 'one and four a pound'
Is not so tender,
And there's no wool left upon
My 'One and three'
When you're sitting In the Ice
Safe with me, darling,
Oh! Promise that you
Won't be cold to me!

Will you love me when I'm mutton
As you do now I am lamb?
Baa baa black sheep,
Tell me do!
Tell me do!
Will you love me
When I'm mutton
Like a true and faithful Ram,
Or will you tell me
I'm too tough to chew?
When my 'one and four a pound'
Is not so tender,
And there's no wool left upon
My 'One and three'
When you're sitting In the Ice
Safe with me, darling,
Oh! Promise that you
Won't be cold to me!

In life they loved,
In death
They were not parted;
Their two heads lay
Upon a butcher's tray.
And 'tight' one night,
The butcher, brokenhearted,
Declared he heard
One little sheep's head say:

Will you love me when I'm mutton
As you do now I am lamb?
Baa baa black sheep,
Tell me do!
Tell me do!
Will you love me
When I'm mutton
Like a true and faithful Ram,
Tho' I'm cut up,
And you feel cut up, too?
Tho' my Cupid's dart's
A skewer stuck in my shoulder
And they've stuck a ticket,
Where your tail should be
When the butcher
Sells your kidneys, love,
For fourpence,
Oh! Tell him
That your heart is still for me!

Will you love me when I'm mutton
As you do now I am lamb?
Baa baa black sheep,
Tell me do!
Tell me do!
Will you love me
When I'm mutton
Like a true and faithful Ram,
Tho' I'm cut up,
And you feel cut up, too?
Tho' my Cupid's dart's
A skewer stuck in my shoulder
And they've stuck a ticket,
Where your tail should be
When the butcher
Sells your kidneys, love,
For fourpence,
Oh! Tell him
That your heart is still for me!

Will you love me when I'm mutton
As you do now I am lamb?
Baa baa black sheep,
Tell me do!
Tell me do!
Will you love me on a Sunday,
When you're roasted like I am,
And when you're served up
Cold on Monday too?
If you meet me in the soup
Upon the Tuesday,
Oh! Promise you won't hide
Behind a pea!
And on Wednesday
When they call us
Rissoles, darling,
Oh! Tell him that
You'll be twin souls with me!

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Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton 1934 seq Dr. P-P in London UK 23 Jul 2001

Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton 1934 seq Dr. P-P in London UK 23 Jul 2001
Will You Love Me When I'm Mutton 1934
Music by Harris Weston
Words by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee
Copyright 1934 by Francis, Day and Hunter Ltd.,
Sequenced for Piano by
Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Monday 23 Jul 2001 at 14.09
in association with
Doug Grierson
and
Bunty Pritchard Jones
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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