The Lancashire Toreador

I've been to Spain but never again

I couldn't go there twice

Course my name's John Willie but they said it sounded silly

And they wouldn't call me that at any price

They soon made me change my name

And a real proper Spaniard I became

Don Pedro the great bullfighting hero

The Lancashire Toreador

They cheer me and when the bull gets near me

To show how far a brave man can go

With the bull I dance the tango

Then when I hung on his tail

My fancy tried to go

I went dashing round the ring with him giving chase

Three times he tossed me in the air I looked a disgrace

They shouted look at all that skin and bone round the place

It's the Lancashire Toreador

Don Pedro the great bullfighting hero

The Lancashire Toreador

I met a charming senorita

She said to love you I can never then kiss me goodbye forever

That night as she retired

She locked her bedroom door

She started to undress and timidly she looked round

Said thank God I am rid of him for he's homeward bound

But when she pulled the bedclothes down now guess what she found

Why the Lancashire Toreador

Don Pedro the great bullfighting hero

The Lancashire Toreador

I scare 'em no mercy ever spare 'em

In the dead of night I ramble Spanish castle walls I scramble

I saw a shadow above

A girl in her boudoir

I climbed up her balcony it started to sway

She shouted murder there's a bandit spare my life pray

But when my castanets I rattle she said hooray