Little Betty Bouncer-Nellie Wallace

[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 - Nellie Wallace [00:05.64]Little Betty Bouncer is kind to her people [00:08.10]And a nice girl more or less [00:09.99] [00:11.01]But at present no joke [00:12.30]She's causing her folks [00:13.68]No end of deep distress [00:15.74] [00:16.62]For she's quite mad [00:17.94]About a man she's never met [00:19.41] [00:19.92]And it's all through [00:21.19]An innocent crystal set [00:24.28] [00:26.53]Little Miss Bouncer [00:27.71]Loves an announcer [00:29.34]Down at the BBC [00:31.13] [00:32.26]She doesn't know his name [00:33.48]But how she rejoices [00:34.48] [00:35.01]When she hears [00:36.46]That voice of voices [00:37.69] [00:39.85]Absolutely tireless [00:41.22]Sitting at the wireless [00:42.71]Poor little Miss B [00:45.18] [00:46.70]It's the man who announces [00:48.45]With such a lot of passion in it [00:50.08] [00:50.74]The Daventry shipping forecast [00:52.64]Will follow in a minute [00:53.77] [00:54.50]Little Miss Bouncer [00:55.82]Loves an announcer [00:57.24]Down at the BBC [00:59.40] [01:00.06]She almost passes right away [01:01.71]The silly little clown [01:02.60] [01:03.36]Whenever he announces [01:04.73]That the station's closing down [01:06.32] [01:07.05]You'd think from her behaviour [01:08.65]When he makes his oscillation [01:10.37]That there wasn't any difference [01:11.75]Between that and osculation [01:13.15] [01:14.03]His voice must be peculiar [01:15.45] [01:16.13]For the other afternoon [01:17.12] [01:17.83]He spoke of Mr Jepson [01:19.37] [01:19.89]And she fell into a swoon [01:21.43] [01:22.57]Another night she wept aloud [01:24.22]And tore her flaxen tresses [01:25.38] [01:26.13]Because he hadn't mentioned her [01:27.65]Among the SOS's [01:28.67] [01:29.27]When she came to [01:30.85]This sentimental kid [01:32.10] [01:32.75]Couldn't stand it any longer [01:34.44]And what do you think she did [01:36.09] [01:37.58]Little Miss Bouncer [01:39.11]Wrote to the announcer [01:40.74]Down at the BBC [01:42.30] [01:43.48]The answer she received [01:45.17]Is worth reciting [01:46.02] [01:46.63]By return of post [01:47.83]In plain handwriting [01:49.12] [01:50.89]All addressed and dated [01:52.44]This is what it stated [01:53.36] [01:54.07]Dear little Miss B [01:56.36] [01:57.85]Here's a picture of my babies [01:59.54] [02:00.13]And the eldest is the laddie [02:01.82] [02:02.39]Who you may like to know [02:03.79]Is the image of his daddy [02:05.68] [02:06.23]So dear Miss Bouncer [02:07.66]From the wife of the announcer [02:09.10] [02:09.83]Down at the BBC