I Knew That There Was Something I Forgot 1930

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7Apr2025
2025

You talk about your absenrminded beggar,
or the chap that is forgetful, on my life;
I cannot think of any thing I can't
upon my word.
I forgot that I was married to my wife.
Not long ago the place where I'm alodging,
caught afire and it gave me such a fright.
I collared all my clobber
and my little dickey dirt,
and down the stairs I ran with all my might.

I knew that there was something I forgot,
I was sure that there was something I forgot,
'cause I seem'd to feel a draught,
all around my fore and aft,
and it made me mind the way the people
look'd at me and laughed.
The fireman quickly turn'd the hose upon me.
I felt so cold I bolted like a shot,
I had on my coat and waistcoat
but I hadn't got my pants,
I knew that there was something I forgot.

I shan't forget the day that I was married,
it was the happiest day of all my life;
We had a lovely wedding
and we had a lot of beer,
and we had a drop of gin to please the wife;
We got so boozed we didn't know each other,
and upon my word my senses left me quite,
I couldn't think of any thing
that happened at the wedding
and I don't remember what occurred that night.

I think that there was something I forgot,
I was sure that there was something I forgot.
I remember getting married
and I paid the parson too,
I remember being arrested
by a gentleman in blue.
I don't know if I thought to pay the cabmen,
all that happened seem'd to get me in a knot.
But when I woke next morning,
and found I hadn't got my missus.
I knew that there was something I forgot.

Some time ago I went to see a doctor,
because I wasn't feeling very well.
He made me put my tongue out
and he said, "Oh, dearie me,
You've got trouble in your little darby Kell."
He gave to me some Physic and a plaster,
and he touched for a guinea for advice.
But the medicine he gave me
didn't seem to do me good,
and the plaster didn't taste so very nice.

I fancy there was something I forgot,
I am sure that there was something I forgot.
I rush'd off to the doctor,
and I said to him. "Look here,
I don't feel any better, Sir,
I'm very very queer."
I said, "I took the physic as you told me,
and I swallowed all the plaster nice and hot."
But he said "You silly sausage,
that's to put upon your tummy,"
Then I knew that there was something I forgot.

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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I Knew That There Was Something I Forgot 1930
by Fred Bluett
© 1930 by A.M.Dinsdale, Melbourne
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 7 April 2025 at 14.22
in association with Torquil Syme
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James Pitt-Payne