TAKE ME BACK TO DEAR OLD BLIGHTY
(Arthur J. Mills / Fred Godfrey / Bennett Scott)


Dorothy Ward - 1916
F.W. Ramsey - 1916
Courtland & Jeffries - 1916
Florrie Forde - 1916
Stanley Kirkby - 1916
Robins & White - 1916
Arthur Fields - 1917
The Two Filberts - 1917
The Unity Quartette - 1917
Jamieson Dodds - 1917
Robert carr - 1917
Alan Turner - 1918
Robins & White - 1927
The Lyric Quartet (feat. in the film "Pack Up Your Troubles") - 1929
Charles "Nat" Star & His band - 1929
Debroy Somers Band - 1930
Jack Hylton & His Orch. - 1930
The Jolly Good Fellows - 1930
Noel Coward (feat in the London Show "Cavalcade" - 1931
Will Evans - 1931
Gracie Fields - 1935
Lew Stone & His Band (vocal: Sam Browne) - 1939
Cecily Courtnedge (feat. in the film The L-Saped Room") - 1962

Also recorded by:
Ella retford; Kevin Coyne; Barry O'Dowd; Jimmy Shand; Hay & Croft; 
Slade & Romer; Carl Tapscott Singers; Warren Mitchell; Primo Scala;
.......... and many others.



Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today
Keeps fit, doing his bit, up to his eyes in clay
Each night, after a fight, to pass the time along
He's got a little gramophone that plays this song

Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don't care

I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me

Bill Spry started to fly up in an aeroplane
In France, taking a chance, wished he was down again
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yelled out to Pilot Brown
"Steady a bit, ya fool, you're turning me upside down"

Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don't care

I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me

Jock Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne
"Look, chum, apple and plum, it's apple and plum again
Same stuff, isn't it rough, fed up with it I am
Oh, for a pot of Aunt Eliza's raspberry jam"

Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don't care

I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me

One day, Mickey O'Shea stood in a trench somewhere
So brave, having a shave and trying to part his hair
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite
"Talk of the Crystal Palace on a firework night"

Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don't care

I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me




(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2017)