Lyr Req: SHIVERY SHAKEY OH MY MY

Subject: SHIVERY SHAKEY OH MY MY
From: GUEST,TENBEARS
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 06:36 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: SHIVERY SHAKEY OH MY MY
From: GUEST,tenbears
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 06:39 PM

Sorry. Pressed the wrong button! Anyone recognise this song ? Mid Victorian aka the Man who Couldnt get Warm

Thanks

Tenbears

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: SHIVERY SHAKEY OH MY MY
From: Pene Azul
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 07:42 PM

You can get the lyrics to "The Man That Couldn't Get Warm" here (click). I'll post them soon.

Jeff

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN THAT COULDN'T GET WARM
From: Pene Azul
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 07:45 PM

THE MAN THAT COULDN'T GET WARM
As SUNG BY GUS. SHAW. -- AIR: King of the Cannibal Islands.

You that are fond, in spite of price, of pastry, creams, and jellies nice,
Be careful how you take an ice, whenever you are warm.
A merchant once from India came, Shivery Shakey was his name;
A pastry-cook did him entice to take a cooling, luscious ice.
The wheather, hot enough to kill, kept tempting him to eat, until
It gave his corpus such a chill, he never again got warm.

CHORUS: Shivery Shakey, oh dear, oh! crimini jimini, isn't it cold?
Shivery Shakey, oh dear, oh! the man that couldn't get warm.

Close to a blazing fire he got, and took to drinking brandy hot;
He sent for doctors, such a lot, the man that couldn't get warm.
They recommended chamois leather, flanel shoes, and india-rubber,
Mustard chillies, and cayenne, but nothing seemed to warm the man;
And when the doctors took their fees, it chilled their blood near twelve degrees,
It even made their fingers freeze, the man that couldn't get warm.

Shivery Shakey &c.

The room was hot enough to bake, and yet this man with cold did ache;
It made the servants shiver and shake, the man that couldn't get warm.
The nursery maids, the scullion, the cook, even John, the coachman, shook,
And all kept crying, night and morning: we really must give master warning.
What's worse, his wife began to pout, and left the house, quite chilled, no doubt,
For he even froze the gardener out, the man that couldn't get warm.

Shivery Shakey, &c.

Then he, with grief filled to the brim, resolved to go abroad by steam;
But not a ship would move with him, the man that couldn't get warm.
He went to the engine room, I'am told, and gave the stoker sudden cold,
Condensed the steam, and stopped the wheels, and gave the passengers the chills.
The vessel, ice-bound, even so, the captain, shaking from top to toe,
Declared, on shore again must go the man that couldn't get warm.

Shivery Shakey, &c.

Next morning this poor man was drowned; in a hot bath he was found,
The water frozen all around, the man that couldn't get warm.
The jury proved it in a trice, he died from indigested ice;
And then the foreman, Patrick Price, the verdict gave with this advice:
Och, ate ice creams, whene'er you will, but only take them when you're ill;
And first of all, take off the chill, and swallow your ices warm.

Shivery Shakey, &c.