Sometimes you just have to whistle!
Sometimes you just have to sing.
Down Harley Street
The butcher's boy whistles down Harley Street
Whistles out of a broken heart
His girl has jilted him
And the butcher sacked his job on the butcher's cart
No girl
No job
It isn't pretty that life is so rotten that once was sweet
The butcher's boy whistles down Harley Street
I worked on this song in high school, but I never performed it because there is a lovely whistling section, and I'm not a stellar whistler, The words have stayed with me and every once in a while they come to mind as being particularly pertinent.
Today job news has me down and I'm whistling.
from "Contemporary Art Songs: 28 songs by American and British composers"
Down Harley Street - Composed by: Charles Kingsford - Copyright 1942
Lyrics by BenjaminFrancis Musser
Hey, your key post made me grin widely. Also: I am, though out of practice, a darn good whistler. I can whistle the robin's solo in "Spoonful of Sugar" in Mary Poppins at a brisk clip, at any rate. Teach me the song sometime?
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