The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29

cJOo nv nv ."ht' ''h' bSI "tl still ne
who rreser we'd their coInposure. This is the
song. and Chevalier says that it has proved his
most popular one In England
Tye got a pal.
sh Il '. s dear 21 I'D "a gai outer;
It's many years since first we met.
,Er air was then as black as Jet:
T.. winter now. but she don't fret,
ives been together now for forty years
There amt a lady living in the land
Asf1d swap for my dear old Dutch.
Icaii 'er Sal.
AM r y pFG %9sy 1 ana a s sa s'Ifer'
AS you'd consider fairer.
She ant n hangel; she can start
Alswin, On 4 make; you smart:
Is m old gall,
For worlds i wSealdnt lose 'er;
Shes q dear, good old gal.
ST. 4. . sIsst (! en- g: % :S:ss %s ; Snss: s ss'f;Ss'n
Al; what a wire to Inc she's been.
Ysr pretty tyr Ribbon, spor,inq
Many years now. old gal,
LIANT n coward. yet | trust
When we've to part, as part we must.
To wait my pal!
pride ola cockney father in the doinGs Of his
Chevalier indicates the height with a gesture
that shows the "Nipper" to be a very little one
lnuetu.
G TSe is 's proal l''' % fhIn% 3e 2 q Knockout
I've knowel I'm to take a girl ON six foot tall
say I'm soin' Out wi fiossy,"
An e only stands 30 Ugh, that's ali,
are the words of description in the song. and
the feature of 1t that attracts the greatest favor
c c. sag tsIl % afteSS h he has seos sung '' ops OF Th the
verses. 1t recounts in these words an alarming
evidence OF pr,escociousness on the part of the
only last sunday me an the missus took i'm
out for a walk should say o took h'ps out.
Let's pop into the Brokers Arms and 'ayea
s54 Rim ., We ses soe., f faiio SIenI By RISE Is ni ns hfiSdS'fs Slso9.
ten al, al! s sS.u q, , f1n, | ! goes s TO , ! bar s sssl, calls 'ls
IS = AZ ss s1 !; = 'S 3h" say says s 6. ''a a'HS H HS'i r s 'SSF
Although the odd Dutch has proved the
most popular OF his songs in ENGLAND, II was
orchestra that the audience at Roster q Balls
on Monday. night broke into the loudest and
most enduring applause. That Is the expert
soon as the Introductory notes OF the prelude
are PLAYED, 2 SHOUT goes up from nth. the speeta,or.;
for several years. and 1t has been whistled and
sung nearly as much as one OF the most popular
of our own local tunes. So the audience well
comes an old friend in a new form when the au-
thor and creator Of, the song commence 1t.
verse and the chorus:
Iarst week down our alley comes a ton-
s Ssss % 9la S q ssS., , wiy . = snpge cough "
:. ln a very g%snt'@T4%ly w %ys rsv., 70 tall
S g s" sllc y . ssi {; TOM ) e { I'm Ss%SS;%:. ""'
ITessvin' you is little donkey shy"
"wot cher!' all the n~eighbors cried.
AVE- YER b Jour fE1ia the TO street. mees, BiIi !"
Knocked tn 'sm IN the old KENT q Keadl
This Is the ballad 4, Of tn, Sunday outing which
donkey shy" which had served all week for
trade nsv an" and On H., ST Ead ele became f z 1ea abcs Ds of
'Enry 'Awkins" and The Coster's serenade,'
. genuinely poetic and delicate bit of dialect
verse which is associated with Chevalier's first
SUCCESS r In l9ndSh az +, a a c costfr Laureate a. eat The
ing lines from 1t will show:
She wears a h'artful bonnet, feathers stuck upon It.
Covsrin'a fringe al, clried; u .,
DGn .es IP 5 The M wide; Wide, .is, wS Slsi ,rnrv ,Av.,n,-
An Got s% %r I Tor 7 to n n the dy III Ah'' "Ah
Settled IT, iarst Monday, soto church on Sunday
ON we trots the donkey shay.
oh, Lizer! Sweet Iizer! II yer dies an old maid
n opm ave h,sniy y bsss f e sl+~s Cow d, ys, fancy
Awkins for yer other nymet
The "Coster's Serenade" illustrates a less sue
cessful phase OF courtship, as the plaintive tone
in II viii show.
Dow Down AM At , fSrS &siss y Xrp tH Va l sis !. ,f Z @y; wy;
Four rHP FSli.a T ma4%u %sS 4" P9 good 90 Ten Enough for me,
gu BIO'lh It INV wv 'NS Inn pl-
Down at the Welsh Arp, witch is 'Edons wy;
on, Arr!e,; I'm Wiling, Wiling for you, my dear;
Wen that moon shall cease to shoine
Eawise WI! be TINS earl OF molne
(spokenl Dye carr
II was this song that was so generally de-
manded by the audience last Monday night
and the cries from the gallery did not cease
until Cheyalier explained that the orchestra
had not reheaTsed the music and that II would
be impossible for him To give II.
ON Friday night, when Chevalier was in his
dressing room getting out OF his coster toys into
the clothes OF "A sOb1 r-loOking, stoCkily built
Englishman, n letter written from a downtown
hotel was handed to him. IL had been sent
through the post and was signed simply with
f bsI worn cnmo , 1T Nng York h iste wri! IGr s 10 des snt' b ns
wife and children, and hai found his way to
Roster A. BlAl's and heard Cheyaler sing the
,%0id Dutch" Th9 efiIeet h OF TIE SsG G2sEnsy,s
10 send the errnnt husband back to his wife and
lead him TO write "A letter To Cheyalier thanking
him for his share In the change which came over
That's not the first tribute | have had to tho
truth OF the Old DutCh,'' he said To the re-
porter. "Once a Scotch divine commended II
has made the greatest impression In England OF
"a whole list Of replies to my songs has
when my turn came | would ind that somebody
had been on before me and sung n reply to the
song was TO give later. There were answers
brother, sister, mother, and her whole family.
Most nf these were mere lumhlcs Of words OF
cockncY slang. often think when people ac-
cuse me OF having idealized the cock
features fairly we'll 10 have been received
as I was Ia the East End OF London. Once |
sang ~ an entertainment given by . costeE A.