Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0318
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleIt doesn't belong to me
Name of creatorCrawley, Dan, performer
Date1893
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled, “It doesn't belong to me”, appearing as two folio sheets (8 pages total). Cover depicts the performer, in lithograph, dressed casually with umbrella and top-hat. Inset are two scenes, one of furniture being loaded onto a cart and another man and a bicycle both looking the worse for wear, with the cation, “I am glad the machine isn’t mine.” Lyrics to the chorus are also depicted: “It doesn’t belong to me, it doesn’t belong to me, won’t the fat be in the fire, when the find it’s all on hire! Oh, my word, what trouble there will be! They’ll have to bring it back again – it doesn’t belong to me!
NotesBack cover has a list of "Francis, Day & Hunter's newest comic songs"
SubjectMusical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonLeo, Frank, 1874-1940, composer and lyricist
Crawley, Dan, performer
Related OrganisationFrancis, Day & Hunter, London, publisher
T.B. Harms & Co, New York, publisher
Related PlaceLondon
CategorySheet music
Access conditionsThis material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
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