Annie Laurie

'[...] Ladies and gentlemen, item one on the programme. Song, "Annie Laurie", Mr Stephens Tertius.'

[...] Stephens Tertius started 'Annie Laurie' in about as high a key as a human being could achieve. He got through the first line without a hitch.

The Luck Stone. 24 The Great Concert

'But what's in the hat-box?' I asked.

'I could not say, sir', replied Bowles.

At this point the hat-box, which had hitherto not spoken, uttered a crisp, sailorly oath, and followed it up by singing the the opening bars of 'Annie Laurie'. It then relapsed into its former moody silence.

[...] Bowles's panic subsided.

'It's a bird, sir. A parrot!'

Ukridge. 10 Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner