JACK-IN-THE-BOX

(Earl Reeves, Sherman Myers)


As recorded by:
BBC Dance Orchestra, Dir. Henry Hall
V. Dan Donovan
Recorded 2nd December 1935



Jack-in-the-box had never seen the light
Living inside his box all day and night
Silvery-locks the fairy saw his plight
Let him out one day
Jack-in-the-box was happy to be free
Said to the fairy, “Won’t you marry me?”
Silvery-locks his wife became and she
Nagged his life away
Every night she told him all the little trials and troubles
He’d get cross and up and down he’d spring with rage
Then she’d scream and get so angry that she’d blow big bubbles
So for peace he’d jump inside the parrot’s cage 

(Musical Break)

Jack-in-the-box, Silvery-locks, 
Baby he rocks in the cradle to and fro
But now there are three
Though he is free
Wishes that he could again be back in the box.




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM Record Collection
 by Bill Huntley -November 2013))