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Jubilee Sovereign - Stanley Holloway
Written by:Marriott Edgar
On jubilee day the ramsbottoms
Asked all their relations to tea
Including young Albert's grandmother
An awkward old party were she
She'd seen queen Victoria's jub lee
And her wedding to Albert the good
But got quite upset when young Albert
Asked how she'd got on in the flood
She cast quite a damper on party
But cheered up a bit after tea
And gave Albert a real golden sovrin
She'd saved since the last jubilee
It had picture of queen on the one side
And a dragon fight on the reverse
And tasted of camphor and cobwebs
Through being so long in her purse
Albert cuddled the coin and he kissed it
And felt the rough edge with his tongue
For he knew by the look of his father
It wouldn't be his very longer
Shall I get your money box abler
Said mother so coaxing and sweet
But Albert let drop an expression
He must have picked up in the street
I'll show you a trick with that sovrin
Said pa who were hovering near
Then he took and pretended to eat it
Then brought it back out of his ear
This magic filled Albert with wonder
And before you could say uncle dick
He'd got the coin back from his father
And performed the first part of the trick
When they saw as he'd swallered his suffering
With excitement his relatives burned
And each one suggested some process
For getting the money returned
Some were for fishing with tweezers
Well some were for shaking it out
If they only got back a few shillings
They said would be better of the nowt
They tried holding Albert head downwards
And giving his back a good thump
Reals uncle who worked for a chemist
Said there's nowt for it but stummick pump
They hadn't a stummick pump Andy
But pa did the best that he could
With a bicycle pump as he'd borrowed
But that weren't a haporth of good
At the last they to came to the doctor
Who looked down his throat through a glass
And said this'll mean operation
He afraid out to laugh to have gas
How much is this were going to cost us
Said father beginning to squirm
Said the doctor it comes quite expensive
The best gas is it eightpence a therm
There's my time four shillings an hour
You can't do these things in two ticks
By rights I should charge you a guinea
But I'll do it for eighteen and six
What eighteen and six to get sovrin said father
That doesn't sound sense
I'll tell you what you'd best keep
Albert and give me the odd eighteen pence
The doctor concurred this arrangement
But to this day is stands in some doubt
As to whether he's in eighteen shillings
Or whether he's eighteen pence out
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