Music Hall Songs That People Still Know (And Even Sing!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"It's A Long Way To Tipperary"
"Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" (<-- surely the most famous)
"Where Did You Get That Hat?"

...what else?

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"hark the herald angels sing/mrs simpson's pinched our king"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

don't have it to hand but iona and peter opie's "lore and language of school children" had a whole chapter on playground version of music-hall classics (closing the chapter with the comment that television was now beginning to supply the material, and some versions of "davey crockett")

i read this book a million times when i was a kid and weird bits of it remain in my head, like the phrase "clever little lottie collins sang 'ta ra ra boom de ay'" <--- i know NOTHING about lottie collins that isn't contained in this quotation

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha awesome, wiki on lottie collins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-ra-ra_Boom-de-ay) informs me that there is a character in gilbert and sullivan's most debordian-sounding show "utopia, incorporated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia,_Limited)" called TARARA THE PUBLIC EXPLODER after the song that lottie collins made famous!