I Dreamt That I Dwelt On The Top Of St Pauls

from The Seven Curses Of The Music Hall by The Blood Tub Orchestra

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I dreamt that I dwelt on the top of St Pauls
And observed a young lady from Penge
She made love to Yankees and Germans and Gauls
And the lies that she told were immense

She kissed and she flirted with this motley crew
With a gusto quite wonderous to see
But I also dreamt, and that narked me the most
She still claimed that she doted on me
She still claimed, she still claimed that she doted on me.

I dreamt that she went to where three brass balls
At the corner swung high in the air
And sported the trinkets and Indian shawls
That her sweethearts had bought her to wear

And I also dreamt and it cornered me most
As she crept from the pawn shop side door
She exclaimed “Though the noodles may chatter and boast
What fools the men are to be sure!
Oh what fools, oh what fools the men are, to be sure!”

I dreamt that she married a footman named Charles
Who was six foot and well in his prime
But they’ve both come to grief, and at two little stalls
They sell whelks at a penny a time
They have ‘taters to bake and they’ve chestnuts to raost
And they spend all their profits on gin
But I also dreamt, and it pleased me the most
That they hate one another like sin
That they hate, that they hate one another like sin

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from The Seven Curses Of The Music Hall, released April 29, 2018

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Songs of the British Music Hall as no one intended them to be heard!

A London based musical rabble (as in Websters definition of ‘a large group of loud people who could become violent.’). A group of individuals now busy dragging up evil smelling offerings from demolished music halls, deconsecrated chapels and boarded up public houses. ... more

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