Back to the Music Hall Songtext
von Dame Fawn Denier

I often wish I could travel back in time
A hundred and twenty years or so
Would be just fine
To experience performing in a music hall
With rowdy audiences having such a ball
Victorian life wasn′t all that good with
Poverty and illness in each neighbourhood
Years before TV and even radio
The music hall was where to go
As the concertina, the ukelele and
The old Joanna would be heard daily


Let's go back to the music hall
We′ll dance and sing and
Have a proper free-for-all
When variety was the spice of life you'd see
And not just a bucket from KFC
It was really all the rage to be on the stage
The good old days were always such a golden age
Even in a crowded noisy smokey old saloon
Take me back to the music hall real soon

When I think about all the stars from that era
My respect and admiration could not be clearer
Marie Lloyd, Florrie Forde I'm such a fan
Vesta Tilley even dressed up as a man
The songs were about real life and often witty
With proper tunes that aint composed by a committee
Years before TV and even radio
The music hall was where to go
Magicians, jugglers and all things funny
You′d even find a ventriloquist′s dummy

Let's go back to the music hall
And dance and sing and have a proper free-for-all
When variety was the spice of life you′d see
And not just a bucket from KFC
It was really all the rage to be on the stage
The good old days were always such a golden age
Even in a crowded noisy smokey old saloon
Take me back to the music hall real soon


Years before TV and even radio
The music hall was where to go
As the concertina, the ukelele
And the old Joanna would be heard daily
So if you'd like a change from Ed and Adele
Check out a song called "Daisy Bell"

Let′s go back to the music hall
And dance and sing and have a proper free-for-all
When variety was the spice of life you'd see
And not just a bucket from KFC
It was really all the rage to be on the stage
The good old days were always such a golden age
Even in a crowded noisy smokey old saloon
Take me back to the music hall (real soon)
Let′s go back to the music hall
We'll dance and sing and have a proper free-for-all
Even in a crowded noisy smokey old saloon
Take me back to the music hall real soon