Little Betty Bouncer-Flotsam & Jetsam/Flotsam/Jetsam

[ti:Little Betty Bouncer] [ar:Flotsam & Jetsam] [al:In Town Tonight: 25 Nostalgic Theatre & Cabaret Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Betty Bouncer - Flotsam/Jetsam [00:05.74]Little Betty Bouncer is kind to her people [00:08.20]And a nice girl more or less [00:10.09] [00:11.11]But at present no joke [00:12.40]She's causing her folks [00:13.78]No end of deep distress [00:15.83] [00:16.71]For she's quite mad [00:18.03]About a man she's never met [00:19.51] [00:20.02]And it's all through [00:21.29]An innocent crystal set [00:24.38] [00:26.63]Little Miss Bouncer [00:27.81]Loves an announcer [00:29.44]Down at the BBC [00:31.23] [00:32.36]She doesn't know his name [00:33.58]But how she rejoices [00:34.58] [00:35.11]When she hears [00:36.56]That voice of voices [00:37.79] [00:39.95]Absolutely tireless [00:41.32]Sitting at the wireless [00:42.81]Poor little Miss B [00:45.28] [00:46.80]It's the man who announces [00:48.55]With such a lot of passion in it [00:50.18] [00:50.84]The Daventry shipping forecast [00:52.74]Will follow in a minute [00:53.87] [00:54.60]Little Miss Bouncer [00:55.92]Loves an announcer [00:57.34]Down at the BBC [00:59.50] [01:00.16]She almost passes right away [01:01.81]The silly little clown [01:02.70] [01:03.46]Whenever he announces [01:04.83]That the station's closing down [01:06.42] [01:07.15]You'd think from her behaviour [01:08.75]When he makes his oscillation [01:10.47]That there wasn't any difference [01:11.85]Between that and osculation [01:13.25] [01:14.13]His voice must be peculiar [01:15.55] [01:16.23]For the other afternoon [01:17.22] [01:17.93]He spoke of Mr Jepson [01:19.47] [01:19.99]And she fell into a swoon [01:21.53] [01:22.67]Another night she wept aloud [01:24.32]And tore her flaxen tresses [01:25.48] [01:26.23]Because he hadn't mentioned her [01:27.75]Among the SOS's [01:28.77] [01:29.37]When she came to [01:30.95]This sentimental kid [01:32.20] [01:32.85]Couldn't stand it any longer [01:34.54]And what do you think she did [01:36.19] [01:37.68]Little Miss Bouncer [01:39.21]Wrote to the announcer [01:40.84]Down at the BBC [01:42.40] [01:43.58]The answer she received [01:45.27]Is worth reciting [01:46.12] [01:46.73]By return of post [01:47.93]In plain handwriting [01:49.22] [01:50.99]All addressed and dated [01:52.54]This is what it stated [01:53.46] [01:54.17]Dear little Miss B [01:56.46] [01:57.95]Here's a picture of my babies [01:59.64] [02:00.23]And the eldest is the laddie [02:01.92] [02:02.49]Who you may like to know [02:03.89]Is the image of his daddy [02:05.77] [02:06.32]So dear Miss Bouncer [02:07.76]From the wife of the announcer [02:09.20] [02:09.93]Down at the BBC