You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.
My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
Oh, mister porter, what shall I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe.
I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
Song, "Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way, 1919; in "Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations," by Tony Augarde, 1991.
R:
Song, "Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way, 1919; in "Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations," by Tony Augarde, 1991.
A:
Song title
N:
Song, "Oh, Mister Porter," words by George Le Brun.
