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Music by Prince Jòzef Poniatowski
Words by Maria Ximena Hayes
1870
Origin : http://hdl.handle.net/1811/71736
Reggie wandered aimlessly about the room in an ecstasy.
'It's a rummy thing,' he said meditatively, 'I've just remember that, when I was at school, I used to sing a thing called the what's–it's–name's wedding song. At house–suppers, don't you know, and what not. Jolly little thing. I daresay you know it. It starts "Ding dong! Ding dong!" or words to that effect, 'Hurry along! For it is my wedding–morning!' I remember you had to stretch out the "mor" a bit. Deuced awkward, if you hadn't laid in enough breath. "The Yeoman's Wedding-Song." That was it.
A Damsel in Distress. Chapter 20
'I was in his shed not so long ago, and purely because I happened absent–mindedly to sing a couple of bars of the "Yeoman's Wedding Song"–'
'Eh?'
'It's a number I'm rendering at the second-class concert tonight,' explained Albert.
The Luck of the Bodkins. Chapter 15
'Any idea what she wants me to give the local yokels? Not the "Yeoman's Wedding Song", I trust?'
'No. You're billed to do the Pat part in that cross-talk act of mine.'
This came under the head of tidings of great joy. Too often at these binges the Brass Hats in charge tell you off to render the 'Yeoman's Wedding Song', which for some reason always arouses the worst passions of the tough eggs who stand behind the back row.
The Mating Season. Chapter 2
I would rank 'My Hero' next after 'The Yeoman's Wedding Song' as a standee-rouser, and when a large blonde appeared and took up the photograph and gave it a soulful look [...], I was expecting big things.
The Mating Season. Chapter 22
'A thoroughly low trick', I said severely. 'Even I, who have never soared above the Yeoman's Wedding Song at a village concert, wouldn't have the crust to face my public unless I'd taken the trouble to memorize the words, though actually with the Yeoman's Wedding Song it is possible to get by quite comfortably by keeping singing "Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, I hurry along". In short...'.
Jeeves in the Offing. Chapter 1
'I know how you feel. The chap in the Yeoman's Wedding Song thought along those same lines, only the way he put it was "Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, I hurry along". At one time I often used to render the number at village concerts, and there was a nasty Becher's Brook to get over when you got to "For it is my wedding morning", because you had to stretch out the "mor" for about ten minutes, which tested the lung power severely. I remenber the vicar once telling me –'
Jeeves in the Offing. Chapter 11
My emotions were somewhat similar to those I had experienced when I first sang the Yeoman's Wedding Song. In public, I mean, for of course I had long been singing it in my bath.
Jeeves in the Offing. Chapter 15
'[...] Audiences hang on his every word, and when he's finished cheer him to the echo.'
I nodded. I had had the same experience myself when singing The Yeoman's Wedding Song at village concerts. Two or three encores sometimes, even when I blew up in the words and had to fill in with 'Ding dong, ding dong, I hurry along'. I began to feel easier in my mind.
Much Obliged, Jeeves. Chapter 9
It was in the spirit of the Polish gentleman in the song who sang 'Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong I hurry along, for it is my wedding morning' that Joe, having deposited Mr Trout at his destination, took the cab on to Fountain Court.
Bachelor Anonymous. Chapter 13
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