时间：2009-08-01
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The Return of Albert - Stanley Holloway
You've heard how young Albert Ramsbottom
In the zoo up at Blackpool one year
With a stick with a horse's head handle
Gave a lion a poke in the ear
The name of the lion was Wallace
The poke in the ear made him wild
And before you could say Bob's your uncle
He'd up and he'd swallowed the child
He were sorry the moment he'd done it
With children he'd always been chums
And besides he'd no teeth in his noddle
And he couldn't chew Albert on the gums
He could feel the lad movin' inside him
As he lay on his bed of dried ferns
And it might have been little lad's birthday
He wished him such happy returns
But Albert kept kicking and fighting
Till Wallace arose feeling bad
And felt it were time that he started
To stage a comeback for the lad
So with his head down in a corner
On his front paws he started to walk
And he coughed and he sneezed and he gargled
'Till Albert shot out like a cork
Old Wallace felt better directly
And his figure once more became lean
But the only difference with Albert
Was his face and his hands were quite clean
Meanwhile mister and missus Ramsbottom
And gone home to tea feelin' blue
Ma says I feel down in the mouth like
Pa says aye I bet Albert does too
Said ma it just goes for to show yer
That the future is never revealed
If I'd thought we was goin' to lose him
I'd have not had his boots soled and heeled
Let's look on the bright side said father
What can't be helped must be endured
Every cloud has a silvery lining
And we did have young Albert insured
A knock on the door came that moment
As father these kind words did speak
'Twas the man from the prudential he'd called for
Their tuppence per person per week
When father saw who had been knockin'
He laughed and he kept laughin' so
That the young man said what's there to laugh at
Pa said you'll laugh and all when you know
Excuse him for laughing said mother
But really things happen so strange
Our Albert's been ate by a lion
You've got to pay us for a change
Said the young feller from the prudential
Now come come let's understand this
You don't mean to say that you've lost him
Ma says oh no we know where he is
When the young man had heard all the details
A purse from his pocket he drew
And he paid them with interest and bonus
The sum of nine pounds four and two
Pa had scarce got his hand on the money
When a face at the window they see
And mother says eeh look it's Albert
And father says aye it would be
Young Albert came in all excited
And started his story to give
And pa says I'll never trust lions
Again not as long as I live
The young feller from the ]prudential
To pick up the money began
And father says eeh just a moment
Don't be in a hurry young man
Then giving young Albert a shilling
He said pop off back to the zoo
Here's yer stick with the horse's head handle
Go and see wot the tigers can do
