Are We Down-Hearted? | movie | 1911 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the misch | dG1fWjd3M1NRSGE2X2s

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00:00Some people who owe rent to dredge the floaters, man and gun, we all of them leave a house for

00:15that.

00:16Before the rent day comes, our landlord's been a soldier and he stands alone to say,

00:22bring his gun and shoot him here, on Monday we don't say, that we don't halt it, no!

00:29Have a joyship, halt it, no!

00:32He can't shoot us out on Monday, we'll shoot the moon on Sunday, for we don't halt it,

00:42no!

00:44Are we down, halt it, no!

00:48Have a joyship, halt it, no!

00:53He can't shoot us out on Monday, we'll shoot the moon on Sunday, for we don't halt it,

01:00no!

01:01We've had some trouble lately with our first door lodger's kid, who's fooling around the

01:12other day, he's one and a half a quid, we banged him and we bounced him till the fork

01:18hit blue and black, and every day we take him up to get the money back, but are we down,

01:25halt it, no!

01:28Have a joyship, halt it, no!

01:33We'll get that hostage someday, we're better than sick last Monday, so we don't halt it,

01:40no!

01:41Are we down, halt it, no!

01:46Have a joyship, halt it, no!

01:50We'll get that hostage someday, we're better than sick last Monday, so we don't halt it,

01:57no!

02:04The people in the neighbourhood and all around our street, can't pay their rates and taxes

02:10though, for things inside the street, they've been in cups of water all but they forgot

02:16to know, we've got to find lots to eat, just round the corner, no!

02:21Are we down, halt it, no!

02:25Have a joyship, halt it, no!

02:29Instead of soap and water, we now wash ourselves in water, are we down, halt it, no!

02:37Are we down, halt it, no!

02:41Have a joyship, halt it, no!

02:46Instead of soap and water, we now wash ourselves in water, are we down, halt it, no!

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