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Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed Down?![]() Quilty and Depford, London Recorded in London, 1977 ![]() |
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I’m an old-fashioned fellow that
lives in a cot, in a spot by the side of the sea. Do you want your old lobby washed down my boy, The landlord came in the other day for his rent, and
for him no money she had, Do you want your old lobby washed down my boy, There’s some of those boys when they go out to
court, they seem to be so very shy. Do you want your old lobbies washed down my boy,
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“‘Do You Want Your
Old Lobby Washed Down’ is probably a music hall song that is claimed
to have originated in Cork. Traditionally, washing down a lobby was an
alternative method of payment for rent if one ran out of money, though
the lyrics can be taken both literally and as double entendre." Jim Carroll |
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