On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep

Featured in the pantomime “Dick Whittington”, 1925.
Words and music by Geo. A. Stevens.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. I’ve just been lingering all alone
   Down Paradise Row
   When I was a kiddie, I’d a sweetheart
   And down there we would go
   I’d call her Nelly and she’d call me Joe
   And we would romp there hand in hand
   Then we’d both sit down on a doorstep there
   And we’d picture the future grand

Chorus
On Mother Kelly’s doorstep, down Paradise Row
I’d sit along o’ Nelly, she’d sit along o’ Joe
She’d got a little hole in her frock
Hole in her shoe
Hole in her sock where her toe peep’d thro’
But Nelly was the smartest down our Alley
On Mother Kelly’s doorstep, I’m wondering now
If li’l gal Nelly remembers Joe, her beau
And does she love me like she used to
On Mother Kelly’s doorstep, down Paradise Row

2. The cobblestones were a meadow sweet
   To Nelly and me
   The smoky chimney on the housetop
   Was a beautiful tree
   And old Brown’s donkey was a big baa-lamb
   And Mother Kelly in the house
   On a wash-day, holding her pail
   Was Mary the milk maid milking cows

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Sung here by Vancha March: