Many years ago now my son and I went to see Me and My Girl at the Weston Theater in Vermont. It’s a silly British comedy, not quite as silly as the average Gilbert & Sullivan, but respectably silly. The plot, such as it is, concerns a lower class guy from Lambeth who, it turns out, is actually heir to a title, and overnight becomes Lord Hereford. I don’t recall that his exact claim is ever explained, but that don’t matter, anyhow. The music is fun, and this song in particular got the audience in Weston cheering, as I’m sure it does in any well done version. It’s just a real fun song, in which a guy from the bottom reaches shows the upper 1% how to have some real fun.
Maybe those kids in NYC and elsewhere should thing about doing the Lambeth Walk. Of course, in the musical, the upper 1% eventually joins in. Not likely, but who knows.
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