My Word, You Do Look Queer

"My Word, You Do Look Queer"
Song by Ernest Hastings
A-side"Gerrard 64"
Released1922
GenreMusic hall, monologue
LabelHis Master's Voice
Songwriter(s)Bert Lee and R. P. Weston

"My Word, You Do Look Queer" is a comic monologue written by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston. It was first performed and recorded in 1922 by English entertainer Ernest Hastings,[1] and revived by Stanley Holloway who recorded it in 1938 and again in 1959.

Lyrics

The song tells of a man recovering from illness, but feeling better. Yet his friends insist on telling him, one after the other, that he looks "queer" (that is, strange or different). He comes to believe that he must indeed be close to death, but revives after a visit to an undertaker's.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Ernest Hastings, Petrucci Music Library. Retrieved 17 January 2021
  2. ^ Richard Anthony Baker, British Music Hall: an illustrated history, Pen & Sword, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78383-118-0, p. 146.
  3. ^ "My Word, You Do Look Queer", Monologues.co.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2021
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