DO YOU STOCK SHOT SILK SOCKS?

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 644, 18 February 1914, Page 7

DO YOU STOCK SHOT SILK SOCKS?

A FEW UP-TO-DATE TONGUETV,'.; STING CHORUSES.

Th.3 craze for difficult choruses is ?.s strong as ever. Drury Lane this rear provides one of the most difficult ever inflicted on a suffering audience. Mr. George Graves is singing : "Does this shop stock shot socks with spots ? Does this shop stock shot socks with spots ? Shot socks with spots give my w«e shocks. x So does this shop stock shot socks with spots ?" Mr. Chris. Baker is also scoringr heavily with; a love-at-first-sight ioßg, the chorus of which runs : 'I was looking back to see If she was looking back to see If I was looking back to see If she was looking. And as I looked back to see If she was looking back to see, We both looked back and saw each other Looking back to see." Two years ago Mr. Wilkie Bard set the seal of popularity on this type Df song with his "'She Sells Seashells." The song was introduced at Drury Lane, and at every performance the comedian persuaded the whole house to sing : ' She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure. For if she sells seashells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore-shells." The comedian followed this success with another song. The chorus was as follows : '■■ The Leith police dismisseth us, I'm thankful, sir, to say, The Leith police dismisseth us, We've bade them good-day- \ The Leith police dismisseth us, Then we sighed a sigh apiece, And this size of our sighs, as we said our good-byes, Were the size of the Leith police." Then came the following puzzler : ":..:.;.'V- son- round to the fish-L-a'Jcc shop, This nsh-sauce shop, the fish-sauce :;hop. She's gone for fish-sauce, she knew 'twas my wish, For the fish-sauce shop's sure to sell sauce for my fish." Lastly may be mentioned Mr. Wilkie Eard's Welsh Railway Porter difficult of all. Try it yourself, and see : " All change for Llanfairiechan, Llannvst, Llandafi, and Brecon, Llandrillo and Llandudno, The language is so strange. All change for Llanglamorgan, It strains my vocal organ. Llangammarch and Llangamacock, And Llanganefi and Llangadock, And Llan-what-else-you-like, Ail change !"