ONLY A WORKING MAN
(Herbert Rule / Fred Holt 1923)

as recorded by Lily Morris
with Stan Greening & his Orchestra
February 10th 1927


When you pick up your Sunday morning papers,
It's nearly always trouble that you read;
Man and wife,
Always ‘aving strife,
For separation each of them will plead!
Now if the woman only used a little bit o' tact,
With ‘appiness they always would be blessed!
Do the same as I do and you'll never ‘ave a row,
Believe me, my old man's one of the best!

I wake him every mornin' when the clock strikes eight,
I'm always punctual, never never late,
With a nice cup o' tea and a little round o' toast,
The Sporting Life and the Winning Post.
I make him nice and cosy, then I toddle off to work,
I do the best I can,
For I'm only doing what a woman should do,
‘Cause he's only a working man!

I ‘urry home each day and cook the dinner
And give it to ‘im nice and ‘ot in bed!
It's nice to know,
When to work I go,
He's always thinking of me, so ‘e said!
He lies in bed so patiently till I come ‘ome to tea,
I wouldn't ‘ave him vexed at any cost,
And if ‘e backs a loser, never says an angry word,
‘Cause I give ‘im back the money that he's lost!

I wake him every mornin' when the clock strikes eight,
I'm always punctual, never never late,
With a nice cup o' tea and a little round o' toast,
The Sporting Life and the Winning Post.
I make him nice and cosy, then I toddle off to work,
I do the best I can,
For I'm only doing what a woman should do,
‘Cause he's only a working man!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - May 2017)