Listen to If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between from Gus Elen's The Golden Age of the Music … you'd cry, It's a picture on a sunny summer day; Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages wot peoples doesn't buy I makes it on a Sunday look all gay. … 1894 Librettist Edgar Bateman (fl.1890-1901) Language English Average Duration Avg. 1894 First Perf ormance.
In 1900 the #23 song in the charts was If it Wasn't For The 'Ouses in Between by Gus Glen. If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between-- Gus Elen. If you saw my little backyard, "Wot a pretty spot!" [E B F# G# F#m C C#m G#m Bm Fm D#m D#] Chords for If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between with capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between If you saw my little backyard, "Wot a pretty spot!" If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between If you saw my little backyard, "Wot a pretty spot!" you'd cry, It's a picture on a sunny summer day; Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages wot peoples doesn't buy I makes it on a Sunday look all gay. Wiv tom-ar-toes and wiv radishes wot 'adn't any sale, If it Wasn't For The 'Ouses in Between - Gus Glen #23 in 1900 #4 in 1900 Haydn Quartet - Because #6 in 1900 Louis Bradfield - I Want to Be a Military Man.
The neighbors finks I grow 'em and you'd fancy you're in Kent, Or at Epsom if you gaze into the mews. Ernest Augustus Elen (22 July 1862 – 17 February 1940) was an English music hall singer and comedian. Title The Cockney's Garden Composer Brunn, George Le: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Music Video. Watch the music video and discover trivia about this classic Pop song now. The neighbors finks I grow 'em and you'd fancy you're in Kent, Or at Epsom if you gaze into the mews. We're as countrified as can be wiv a clothes prop for a tree, The tub-stool makes a rustic little stile; Ev'ry time the blooming clock strikes there's a cuckoo sings to me, And I've painted up "To Leather Lane, a mile." "If It Wasn’t for the ’Ouses in Between" (1894) is one of the best-known songs of Gus Elen (1862-1940), whose critical reception in the 1890s emphasized how truthfully he represented the Cockney on the music-hall stage. 1894 First Pub lication. Elen’s most famous song was ‘If it Wasn’t for the ‘Ouses in Between’. Click on arrow to hear the song performed by Derek B. Scott, Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds, to his own piano accompaniment c. 1985. Gus Elen . ARTIST.
you'd cry, It's a picture on a sunny summer day; Wiv the turnip tops and cabbages wot peoples doesn't buy I make it on a Sunday look all gay.
Written by Edgar Bateman and George Le Brunn, it was performed by Gus Elen a well known music hall performer who specialised in singing songs in an exaggerated Cockney accent. Never Introduce Your Donah To A Pal - Gus Elen .