Read all about it! Murder in Whitechapel Down the Grave Maurice Maf, a star of Music Hall Gunned down mid-song By unknown assailants So I confess I couldn't bear being less famous Oh what misfortunes in this day and age Befall the Whitechapel music hall stage! A variety PacMan, I swallowed his fame There and then, when I gunned poor Matthew down
(Murder most 'orrible)
Maf had it all, the love of the public The wit of Lennie Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Peter Cook Beautiful women, a daughter called Ushka A career in music hall, Bathshebas and babushkas Oh what misfortunes occur in this age You can never be sure you'll leave the stage As you came on it A fat Space Invader, I flattened his fame That day I gunned poor Matthew down
(I 'ope you're ashamed of yourself)
Singer, philanderer, drinker and coprophile Born in Batley, Leeds, adorned in orange rosary beads 'I am nobody' engraved on the bracelet He wore around his wrist in Dickensian copperplate I made my confession to Didsbury police I'd hoped to kill Morrissey, but neither of us could get arrested Oh what misfortunes, what sufferings and pain I have brought upon the halls of old Brick Lane!
(Or could he be sane?) (To my eternal shame)
Read all about it! Murder in Whitechapel Down the Grave Maurice Momus, star of Music Hall Gunned down mid-song --
Compositor: Nicholas John Currie ECAD: Obra #7840173