They Wouldn't Let You Do That Here 1907

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3Apr2025
2025

You can't do this and you can't do that
in this silly old world of pain;
And folks are so particular
they'd drive you near insane.
A little while back
I got locked up
and placed before the beak,
who said, "You don't look well young man
so stay with us for a week."
They drove me out to a nice stone place,
I'd a man to wait on me;
but he told me when I said,
"I'd like some friends around to tea."

Oh, they wouldn't let you do that here,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
It would not agree with the rules do you see,
'Twould get you into trouble,
and it might get me.
What next will you be wanting,
ham sandwiches and beer,
and your old Dutch clock
to come abd tuck you in? Ha
they wouldn't let you do that here.

Oh, they wouldn't let you do that here,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
It would not agree with the rules do you see,
'Twould get you into trouble,
and it might get me.
What next will you be wanting,
ham sandwiches and beer,
and your old Dutch clock
to come abd tuck you in? Ha
they wouldn't let you do that here.

The great Salvation Army
is a thing that I admire;
I like to hear them shouting
hallelujah, blood and fire,
so when I couldn't get a job
I hit upon a plan,
said I, I'll join their ranks
and be a soldier and a man.
I said I'd like to take
the plate around collecting tin,
but a lassie dug me in the ribs
and answered with a grin.

Oh, they wouldn't let you do that here,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
We've had a lot of chaps like you before,
collected the money
and skedaddled through the door.
One mashed the captain's missus
and bunked with her, oh dear.
And you might want to do the same with me
they wouldn't let you do that here.

Oh, they wouldn't let you do that here,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
We've had a lot of chaps like you before,
collected the money
and skedaddled through the door.
One mashed the captain's missus
and bunked with her, oh dear.
And you might want to do the same with me
they wouldn't let you do that here.

Supposing now you fall in love
it's a sign you're very bad,
you're either boozed, or dilly,
or perhaps you're only mad;
for instance if you're married
and you're tired of wedded life,
you've got to work and work and work
and work to keep your wife.
It's different out in Persia
and Morocco so they say,
they've fellows there all have to have
a dozen wives a day.

But, they wouldn't let you do that here, no,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
for instance, if you take a wife,
you're in for trouble all your life,
but the Sultan of Morroco
has a new one every year,
and sells the old ones three for a bob;
but they wouldn't let you do that here.

But, they wouldn't let you do that here, no,
they wouldn't let you do that here;
for instance, if you take a wife,
you're in for trouble all your life,
but the Sultan of Morroco
has a new one every year,
and sells the old ones three for a bob;
but they wouldn't let you do that here.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
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piano 3
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lyric
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They Wouldn't Let You Do That Here 1907
Lyrics & Music by Fred Hall
© 1907 by Allan & Co.Prop.Ltd.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 3 April 2025 at 16.37
in association with Torquil Syme
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James Pitt-Payne