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Albert Comes Back

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Albert Comes Back was released on February 18, 2013 by Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group as a part of the album Parlophone Comedy Classics

Song Details

AlbumParlophone Comedy Classics

Release DateFebruary 18, 2013

LabelParlophone Records Ltd. A Warner Music Group Company

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Marriott Edgar

Songwriter, Composer

Lyrics

You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom

In the zoo up at Blackpool one year

With a stick with a 'orse's head handle

Gave a lion a poke in the ear

The name of the lion was Wallace

The poke in the ear made him wild

And before you could say "Bob's yer uncle"

He'd up and he'd swallowed the child

He was sorry the moment he'd done it

With children he'd always been chums

And besides he'd no teeth in his noddle

And he couldn't chew Albert on't gums

He could feel the lad moving inside him

As he lay on his bed of dried ferns

And it might have been little lad's birthday

He wished him such happy returns

Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom

Had gone home to their tea feeling blue

Ma says, "I feel down in the mouth like"

Pa says, "Aye, I bet Albert does too"

Said Ma, "It just goes for to show you

That the future is never revealed

If I thought we was going to lose him

I'd have not had his boots sole de nailed"

"Let's look on the bright side" said Father

"What can't be helped must be endured

Every cloud has a silvery lining

And we did have young Albert insured"

A knock at the door came that moment

As Father these kind words did speak

'Twas the man from Prudential, he called for

"Their tuppence per person per week"

When Father saw who had been knocking

He laughed and he kept laughing so

That the young man said, "What's there to laugh at?"

Pa says, "You're laughing all when you know"

"Excuse him for laughing," said Mother

"But really things happened so strange

Our Albert's been ate by a lion

You've got to pay us for a change"

Said the young fella from the Prudential

"Now come, come, let's understand this

You don't mean to say that you've lost him?"

Ma says, "Oh no, we know where he is"

When the young man had heard all the details

A bag from his pocket he drew

And he paid them with interest and bonus

The sum of nine pound, four and two

Pa had scarce got his hand on the money

When a face at the window they see

And Mother says, "Eh, look, it's Albert!"

And Father says, "Aye, it would be"

Young Albert came in all excited

And started his story to give

And Pa says, "I'll never trust lions again

Not as long as I live"

The young fella from the Prudential

To pick up the money began

And Father says, "Eh, just a moment

Don't be in hurry, young man"

Then giving young Albert a shilling

He said, "Pop off, back to the zoo

Here's your stick with the 'orse's head handle

Go and see what the tigers can do!"

Written by: Marriott Edgar

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