HOW AM I GONNA KEEP THE NEWS FROM MOTHER?
(Michael Carr / Eddie Pola)


Carroll Gibbons' Savoy Hotel Orpheans (vocal: Anne Lenner) - 1935
Roy Fox & His Band (vocal: Sid Buckman) - 1935



He took me walkie-walkies
Cuddled me in the back row of the talkies
Maybe a half-a-crown will fix my brother
But how am I gonna keep the news from Mother

We had a little drinkie
Something that looked so nice and pinkie-pinkie
After the first, we had another
But how am I gonna keep the news from Mother

She always told me not to pet
She said it's naughty to coquette
Oh, what a shock she's gonna get
When she learns that I know twice as much as she does

He got me all a-tingle
Talking about those wedding bells that jingle
Father's got a conscience I can smother
But how am I gonna keep the news from Mother



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2018)