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If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between (Lyrics and chords in the description)


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Ukulele cover of the Gus Elen music hall song. Scroll down for Lyrics and chords.

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 'OUSES IN BETWEEN
(Edgar Bateman / George LeBrunn)
Recorded by Gus Elen - 1899

[G] If you [D7] saw my little backyard
\"Wot a [G] pretty spot\", you'd cry
It's a [D7] picture on a sunny summer [G] day
Wiv the [D7] turnip tops and cabbages
Wot [G] people doesn't buy
I [D7] makes it on a Sunday look all [G] gay

The [D] neighbours finks I [Em] grow 'em, [A7] And you'd fancy you're in [D] Kent
Or at [B7] Epsom if you [Em] gaze in [A7] to the [D]
mews
It's a [B7] wonder as the [Em] landlord
Doesn't [A] want to raise the [D] rent
Be[A7]cause we have such nobby distant [D7]
views

Oh! it [G] really is a [D7] wery pretty [G] garden
And [Am] Chingford to the [A7] Eastward could be
[D7] seen
Wiv a [B7] ladder and some [Em] glasses
You could [A7] see to 'Ackney [D7] Marshes
If it [G] wasn't for the [D7] 'ouses in [G] between

[G] We're as [D7] countrified as can be
Wiv a [G] clothes prop for a tree
The [D7] tub-stool makes a rustic little [G] stile
Ev'ry [D7] time the blooming clock strikes
There's a [G] cuckoo sings to me
And I've [D7] painted up \"To Leather Lane A [G]
Mile\"

Wiv [D] tomatoes and wiv [Em] radishes
Wot [A7] 'adn't any [D] sale
The [B7] backyard looks a [Em] purfick [A7] mass o' [D] bloom
And I've [B7] made a little [Em] beehive
Wiv some [A] beetles in a [D] pail
And a [A7] pitchfork wiv the 'andle of a [D7] broom

Oh! it [G] really is a [D7] wery pretty [G] garden
And [Am] Rye 'Ouse from the [A7] cock-loft could
be [D7] seen
Where the [B7] chickweed man un [Em] dresses
To bathe [A7] 'mong the water [D7] cresses
If it [G] wasn't for the [D7] 'ouses in [G] between

[G] There's the [D7] bunny shares his egg box
Wiv the [G] cross-eyed cock and hen
Though they has [D7] got the pip and he has got
the [G] 'morf
In a [D7] dog's 'ouse on the line-post
There was [G] pigeons, nine or ten
Till [D7] someone took a brick and knocked it [G]
off

The [D] dust cart, though it [Em] seldom comes
[A7] Is just like 'Arvest [D] 'Ome
And we [B7] tried to rig a [Em] dairy [A7] up some' [D] ‘ow
I put the [B7] donkey in the [Em] wash'ouse
Wiv some [A] imitation [D] 'orns, For we're [A7] teaching im to moo just like a [D7]
kah

Oh! it [G] really is a [D7] wery pretty [G] garden
And [Am] 'Endon to the [A7] westward could be
[D7] seen
And by [B7] clinging to the [Em] chimbley
You could [A7] see across to [D7] Wembley
If it [G] wasn't for the [D7] 'ouses in [G] between

[G] Though the [D7] gasworks is at Woolwich
They im [G] prove the rural scene
For [D7] mountains they would very nicely [G] pass
There's the [D7] mushrooms in the dust-hole
With the [G] cowcumbers so green
It [D7] only wants a bit 'o 'ot 'ouse [G] glass

I [D] wears this milkman's [Em] nightshirt
And I [A7] sits outside all [D] day
Like the [B7] ploughboy cove what's [Em] mizzled
[A7] o'er the [D] Lea
And [B7] when I goes in [Em] doors at night
They [A] dunno what I [D] say
'Cause my [A7] language gets as yokel as can [D7]
be

Oh! it [G] really is a [D7] wery pretty [G] garden
And [Am] soapworks from the [A7] 'ousetops could
be [D7] seen
If I [B7] got a rope and [Em] pulley
I'd en [A7] joy the breeze more [D7] fully
If it [G] wasn't for the [D7] 'ouses in [G] between


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