Was thinking about Mom's piano playing and this tune popped into my head, Tiddly Winks, so looked up on web.
Here it says it is an American song, but the website is UK, which I always believed, and of course it does sound better in cockney than dixie twang, or does it?
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Tiddle-a-Wink the Barber Sung by Tony Pastor.
Now Mister Tomkins had a son, who kept a barber's shop.
And being queer could not go there, so a note to his son did drop;
Said he old knave, I want a shave, I also really think.
Then is not one shaves like my son, whose name Is Tiddle-a-Wink.
Chorus.
Tiddle-a-Wlnk-Tiddle-a-Wink-Tiddle-a-Wink, the barber,
Tiddle-a-Wink-Tiddle-a-Wink-went to shave his father,
But he made a skip and cut his lip, which made the father roar,
The father knocked poor Tiddle-a-Wink bang out upon the floor.
The blood then flowed from Tomkins' mouth and very soon he found,
Where he used to put an ounce of meat there was room to put a pound;
The doctor he was quickly brought, to sew it up did try.
He looked so queer, they were all in fear, when the doctor said he must die.
Said he, I think this Tiddle-a-Wink has caused his father's death;
Then Tiddle-a-Wink with fear did blink-could scarcely catch his breath :
The father died, the son he tried some poison then to take,
But this they stopp'd and on him dropped, for making this sad mistake.
Next morn before the magistrate poor Tiddle-a-Wink they took.
There his history to relate, and like a leaf he shook;
His solicitor soon set him free, and the people, they
Asked how the old man met his death; others they would say
Tiddle-a-Wlnk-Tiddle-a-Wink-Tiddle-a-Wink, the barber,
Tiddle-a-Wink-Tiddle-a-Wink-went to shave his father,
But he made a skip and cut his lip, which made the father roar,
The father knocked poor Tiddle-a-Wink bang out upon the floor.
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Now you and I know the rest of the story.
Dad