I Said Hooray

Transcript

I went to an unemployed meeting one night, and I knew what the speaker was saying was right. With no work to do, we are hungry, he said, and our women and children are starving for And I said, hooray. On a stretcher they took me away.

And when I woke up in their hospital bed, they were sticking tin plates in the top of my head. And the doctor exclaimed, why, the poor fellow's dead. And I said, hooray.

One day with the missus I went to the zoo, and just as I said, dear, that monkey's like you, she chased me all around and for five things she chased. But in with the lions I ran and escaped, and I said, hooray. For safe with the lions I lay.

The wife said, you coward, the lion is she. Made one mighty spring, said the lion, let him be. I married myself, they had my sympathy, and I said, hooray.

Now I've been expecting a family event, and last Monday evening as homeward I went, a young man came up and he said with a cough, it doesn't hurry up because I think it's come off. And I said, hooray. And I ran to the wife all the way.

A man said, there's three of them, I said, oh lord. When I got to the house someone whispered, there's four. Then they showed me the cat in a box full of straw, and I said, hooray.

Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.