In a fit of pique, she married the Greek

[shybearuk]

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?

[Kit]

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

[shybearuk]

Thanks SO much, Kit. Wow, I'm SO impressed that someone got back to me so quickly. I thought it was something really obscure that I'd seen in a play or something