WHEN BENT BROKE INTO SONG.

NZ Truth, Issue 58, 28 July 1906, Page 1

WHEN BENT BROKE INTO SONG.

Another record gone bung, alack Ndfr only was Mr. Seddon not the record reign premier, as shown ejsewhere, but he wasn't the only singing premier. There is Ton* Bent, the Victorian Main Guy, and this it' how Melbourne " Truth " breaks the news : "Mr. Bent made -his reappearance as* comic song artist last night after having restrained his musical proclivities for a period of several months. Mr. Bent thereupon broke into song : — ■ ' ■ There was three flies upon a time—* There was three flies upon a time. Then hestopped and said, ' Why don't yotf' start up ?' (Laughter.) Oh! I can't, sing to-night. Well, if you can't sing ' Tha Flies ' you can sing something else later. I , reallythink you could give us the Flies/ n ' —The "Age/' '■■ . . Come, gather round, my noble lads, And listen unto me, ' t While I sing a lay of our own great day,' A lay of Thomas B ! ; He is the chap to rule the land And boost the show along— 'Twas a siokly show, and too damned sloWj Tin Bent broke into song 1 Chorus. Till Bent broke into song Things never went along-* ' . The papers' said We were all dead, • Till Bent broke into song IIf you would care Til tell you J (But please don't cry "Encore!*) Some of the songs he broke into And bust for evermore 1 . There was, first of all, "The Anchot'g . Weighed"— Though overweighed, it went : . At Bent's, great strain the cable brokjfHf So another one was bent 1 Chorus. Tom Bent broke into song, ' But the cable wasn't strong/ '.':■ ■> That Anchor stayed ■ ! . Where it was laid.— J' .^ When Bent broke into song I ■ "' .'. ■ :■■ *?■■:"■ Next Thomas sang about a fly f Alfib a bumble-bee," „ . A bar of soap, and a Band of -Hopft—! A wondrous melodie I He sang, " Oh, don't give up the ship/^ For " Now we shan't be long I" It gave his audience the pip When Bent broker into song I Chorus. ■ When/ Bent broke uito sonftV It paralysed the throng ; . His grammar's choice. So is his voice, " Whenßent breaks into song I -' ' ) \:' OR 1 every day and every night ' *"' "* ' ■ ■ You'd hear Bent sing with glee ij He'd sing to you — he'd sing to two-S And sometimes sing to three 1 -' He'd sing up high-- like lark in sky-rf He'd Slso sing down low. ■ ■But hiß best notes were like the goat'* Bound where his whiskers blow 1 • - Chorus. And when Bent broke into song You couldn't put him wrong—; ' That song was slain, ' Lilt and refrain, When Bent broke into Bong !