Serves You Right! 1909 Billy Williams

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15Jan2025
2025

P.C. SeventyThree
once arrested Billy McGee;
Bill he tried his best
the "cop" to kill;
So that limb of the law
dragged him home and
knocked at the door,
while the neighbours
shouted out at Bill.

Serves you right!
It Serves you right!
jolly well Serves you right!
You've pinched his whistle
and torn his clothes.
Smashed his helmet
and broke his nose.
He was going to lock you up,
but now as you want to fight,
He's going to take you home
to your wife,
and it jolly well
Serves you right!

Bill Green, terribly mean,
wearing shoddy clothes
could be seen,
made by foreign work
to save a bob.
His knives, forks and his plates
were foreignmade
so all of his mates
shouted when they heard
he'd lost his job.

Serves you right!
It Serves you right!
jolly well Serves you right!
A German cut out the clothes you want,
a Russian barber has cut your hair,
Matches cut in Sweden, too,
you use if you want a light,
Now a foreigner's cut
you out of your job,
and it jolly well
Serves you right!

Oh dear upon the pier,
Simpson felt a kick in his rear,
fell into the water
with a splosh.
Bill Brown, barber by trade
shouted out,
"You ought to have paid
tuppence in my shop
to've had a wash!

Serves you right!
It Serves you right!
jolly well Serves you right!
Said the fellow
"Oh save me do!"
said the barber
"But who shaves you?"
He replied "I shave myself."
The barber said,
Blow me tight.
if you shave yourself,
you can drown yourself
and it jolly well
Serves you right!"

Some spack when it was dark
ev'ry evening out in the park
with a diff'rent girl
upon his knees.
One night, when he had sat
hours and hours.
or longer then that,
he heard this loving
echo through the trees.

Serves you right!
It Serves you right!
jolly well Serves you right!
You can love her and call her "sweet"
but this morning
we've tarred the seat.
Nice and black
it's bound to stick
you've got to stop
here all night
and tomorrow you'll have
to marry the girl
and it jolly well
Serves you right!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Serves You Right! 1909
by R.P.Weston & Fred J. Barnes
© MCMIX by Frances, Day & Hunter
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sequence & karaoke byJames Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 12.20
in association with Torquil Syme
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James Pitt-Payne