Ee By Gum lyrics

The Yankee says Gee Wiz
The Scotsman says `Ood-aye
The Welshman says Indeed You Goodness
Goodness knows just why
In Lancashire and Yorkshire
Ever since the world began
This is the expression of a strong and silent man
`Ee By Gum, `Ee-hee By Gum
The only thing he ever says is `Ee By Gum

He says it when he`s happy
And he says it when he`s glum
He means an awful lot when he says `Ee-ee By Gum
He hears it in the cradle before he cuts a tooth
He learns it as a baby and he says it as a youth
And when he goes a courting
And his girl goes Hmm-mm-hmm-mm-mm-mmm
He looks into her eyes and whispers
`Ee-ee-ee-ee By Gum

The Frenchmen say La La
The Irish say Bedad
Os Bobbikins is what they said
When Cromwell was a lad
The Spaniard says Karumba
And the eskimo says Wow
But none of them mean half as much
As what I`m singing now

`Ee By Gum, `Ee-hee By Gum
The only thing he ever says is `Ee-hee-ee By Gum
He says it when he`s happy
And he says it when he`s glum
He means an awful lot when he says `Ee By Gum
He hears it in the cradle before he cuts a tooth
He learns it as a baby and he says it as a youth

At the Isle of Mann or Blackpool
For a while he lose his chum
When his chum says Wheres Thou Been Lad?
He says `Ee By Gum
Hee-ee-ee-`Ee By Gum
`Ee-hee-ee By Gum