Champagne Charlie

George Leybourne

I’ve seen a deal of gaiety through out my noisy life With all my grand accomplishments I ne’er could get a wife, The thing I most excel in is the P. R. F. G. game, A noise all night in bed all day, and swimming in Champagne. Chorus: |: For Champagne Charlie is my name, :| |: Good for any game at night, my boys, :| |: Champagne Charlie is my name, :| Good for any game at night, boys, Who’ll come and join me in a spree. 2. The way I gain’d my title’s by a hobby which I’ve got, Of never letting others pay, however long the shot, Who ever drinks at my expense are treated all the same; From Dukes and Lords to Cabmen down, I make them drink Champagne. Chorus: 3. From Coffee and from supper rooms, from Poplar to Pall Mall, The girls on seeing me exclaim “Oh! what a Champagne swell!” The notion ’tis of ev’ry one, if ´twere not for my name, And causing so much to be drunk, they’d never make Champagne. Chorus: 4. Some epicures like Burgundy, Hock, Claret, and Moselle, But Moet’s Vintage only satisfies this Champagne swell; What matter if to bed I go, and head is muddled thick, A bottle in the morning sets me right then very quick. Chorus: 5. Perhaps you fancy what I say is nothing else but chaff, And only done, like other songs, to merely raise a laugh; To prove that I am not in jest each man a bottle of Cham I’ll stand fizz round - yes that I will, and stand it - like a lamb. Chorus: