Wot Cher (1944)  (Knocked ‘em in the Old Kent Road)    (video)

 

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1.       Last week down our alley came a toff,

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    nice old geezer with a nasty cough,

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    sees me, then he takes ‘is topper off

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    in a very gentlemanly way.

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    Ma’am he says,        “I have some news to tell,

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    your rich Uncle Tom of Camberwell

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    popped off recent, which it aint a sell,

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    leaving you is little donkey Shay.”

 

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    “Wot Cher!” all the neighbours cried,

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“Who’re you going to meet, Bill ?

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Have ya bought the street, Bill ?”

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Laugh, I thought, I could have died,

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knocked‘em in the Old Kent Road.

 

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2.    Ev ‘ry evenin’ on the stroke of five,

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    me and Albert take a little drive,

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    you’d say, “Wonderful, they’re still alive!”

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    If you saw that little donkey go.

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    I soon showed him          What ‘e’d have to do,

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    just what ever he was wanted to,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    still I shan’t forget that rowdy crew,

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    ‘Ollerin’,“ Woa! Steady! Neddy! Woa!”

 

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    “Wot Cher!” all the neighbours cried,

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“Who’re you going to meet, Bill ?

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Have ya bought the street, Bill ?”

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Laugh, I thought, I could have died,

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knocked‘em in The Old Kent Road.

 

(orig. moves up half a note to capo 1st here)

 

+  repeat CHORUS 

 

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+  Knocked‘em in the Old Kent Road.

 

    (Marlene Dietrich)