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In a fit of pique, she married the Greek
I have a set of lyrics running through my head, and I don't know what they're from, only that I heard them a very long time ago, and they're something like a Fascinating Aida song. They go: 'In a fit of pique, she married the Greek and now she's dressed in mink...'. Does ANYONE have any ideas about where I can see the lyrics to the rest of the song, or buy a copy of it, or just what it is?
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It's from The Ballad of Bethnal Green, by Paddy Roberts, who recorded it in the 60s - I've no idea who else has recorded it. As far as I can ascertain, the lyrics are:
I'll tell a tale of a jealous male and a maid of sweet sixteen;
She was blond and dumb and she lived with her mum on the fringe of Bethnal Green.
She worked all week for a rich old Greek for her dad was on the dole;
And her one delight on a Friday night was to have a little rock and roll.
Then one fine day in the month of May she found her true romance;
He was dark and sleek with a scar on his cheek and a pair of drainpipe pants;
And she thought "With you I could be so true through all the years to come";
For she loved the gay, abandoned way he chewed his chewing gum.
It all went well because he fell for all her girlish charms;
But he had some doubt when he caught her out in someone else's arms.
He said "Look here, you know my dear, this is going a bit too far",
And he went quite white and sloshed her right in the middle of a cha-cha-cha.
He went before a man of the law who said "This will not do;
I've had enough of the kind of stuff that I get from the likes of you."
And was she peeved when he received a longish term in clink;
In a fit of pique she married the Greek and now she's dressed in mink.
The chorus after each verse is:-
To my oo fal lal to my titty fal lal to my itty bitty fal lal lay
She was blond and dumb and she lived with her mum on the fringe of Bethnal Green.
She worked all week for a rich old Greek for her dad was on the dole;
And her one delight on a Friday night was to have a little rock and roll.
Then one fine day in the month of May she found her true romance;
He was dark and sleek with a scar on his cheek and a pair of drainpipe pants;
And she thought "With you I could be so true through all the years to come";
For she loved the gay, abandoned way he chewed his chewing gum.
It all went well because he fell for all her girlish charms;
But he had some doubt when he caught her out in someone else's arms.
He said "Look here, you know my dear, this is going a bit too far",
And he went quite white and sloshed her right in the middle of a cha-cha-cha.
He went before a man of the law who said "This will not do;
I've had enough of the kind of stuff that I get from the likes of you."
And was she peeved when he received a longish term in clink;
In a fit of pique she married the Greek and now she's dressed in mink.
The chorus after each verse is:-
To my oo fal lal to my titty fal lal to my itty bitty fal lal lay
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