Nix On The Glow-Worm Lena! 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22Jan2025
2025

In a boarding house lived
Lena Strauss
who owned a concertina,
and she knew one song
that she played all wrong,
but that didn't worry Lena.
When she rose each day,
she'd commence to play,
and the boarders thought of no term,
that was strong enough
it was really tough,
when Miss Lena played
the GlowWorm
When she started in to play
the bounders all would yell, "Hey!"

Nix on the GlowWorm, Lena, Lena,
play something else on your concertina,
if the man that wrote it
heard her it's a cinch,
there would be murder;
cut out the GlowWorm,
can it! can it!
We'll go dippy soon;
Beat it Lena with your concertina,
and that GlowWorm tune.

Nix on the GlowWorm, Lena, Lena,
play something else on your concertina,
if the man that wrote it
heard her it's a cinch,
there would be murder;
cut out the GlowWorm,
can it! can it!
We'll go dippy soon;
Beat it Lena with your concertina,
and that GlowWorm tune.

Now on Christmas Day
in the proper way
they hold a celebration,
and they played and sang
till the whole house rang,
with song and recitation.
But, a boarder who
on that day was new
by mistake said, "Oh, Miss Lena,
won't you play, please do
it is up to you,
and your lovely concertina.
When she started in to play,
the boarders all did yell, "Hey!"

Nix on the GlowWorm, Lena, Lena,
play something else on your concertina,
if the man that wrote it
heard her it's a cinch,
there would be murder;
cut out the GlowWorm,
can it! can it!
We'll go dippy soon;
Beat it Lena with your concertina,
and that GlowWorm tune.

Nix on the GlowWorm, Lena, Lena,
play something else on your concertina,
if the man that wrote it
heard her it's a cinch,
there would be murder;
cut out the GlowWorm,
can it! can it!
We'll go dippy soon;
Beat it Lena with your concertina,
and that GlowWorm tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Nix On The Glow-Worm Lena! 1910
From "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1910"
Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald
Music by Harry Carroll
© MCMX by Jos.W.Stern & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 17.25
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James Pitt-Payne