Oh! Chantecler

. . . A Married Man’s Lament, 1910.
Words and music by Frank Wood.

The sheet music:

Oh-Chantecler – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Oh_Chantecler – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Some time ago there came to town
    The famous Chantecler
    My wife she went to see
    This thing from gay Paree
    And now she’s fairly caught the craze
    And taken off her clothes
    And, dress’d up like a bird
    She walks about the place and crows

Chorus
Oh! Chantecler
What have you done for me?
My old girl’s gone M. A. D.
I can’t get a sensible word from Sue
For all she does is to waddle about
And “Cock-a-doo-dle-oo”

  1. Last night I slept upon the floor
    For when I sought my bed
    She’d cut it all about
    And took the feathers out
    I asked her what she’d done with them
    She answer’d with a grin
    “I’ve shaved the fur from the cat
    And stuck the feathers in”
  2. She’s put the dog inside a cage
    And feeds it ev’ry day
    On giblets, you must know
    To try and make it crow
    When I got home this afternoon
    Our darling baby Jack
    Was dress’d up like a duck
    And she was teaching him to quack