C. W. Murphy

Charles William Murphy (14 February 1870 – 18 June 1913) He started writing songs in the 1890s, including "Dancing to the Organ in the Mile End Road". Another song, "Little Yellow-bird" (1903) (aka "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") written with lyricist William Hargreave, was first performed by Ellaline Terriss. The song reached the United States, where the lyrics were partly rewritten by William McKenna to set it in New York; it became a hit for Nora Bayes. Peter Gammond wrote that "the life of Murphy is shrouded in silence, but the catchy songs he wrote have not perished".

Works

Sole credit "Clara & Sarah" – 1897 "Baby Loo (How Can I Be Poor)" – 1898 "Hooligan's Canary" – 1898 "How Can I Be Poor?" – 1898 "How Can They Tell That Oi'm Oirish?" – 1898 "Kelly, the Car-man" – 1898 "Jane Magee" – 1898 "Everybody Loves You" – 1900 "Just the Same To-day" – 1900 "Mulligan's Motor-car" – 1900 "Just As Long As You Love Me" – 1901 "Dat Little Gal of Johnson's" – 1902 "I Did Feel Sorry" – 1902 "I Don't Want To Be A Honeysuckle" – 1902 "I Live in Trafalgar Square" – 1902 "If That Comes True" – 1902 "Mama's Little Sleepy-eyes!" – 1902 "Molly O'Malley" – 1902 "My Home is My Garden" – 1902 "The Coloured Millionaire" – 1902 "The Girl in the Panama" – 1902 "Hanging Mother's Picture on a Nail" – 1903 "The Giddy Little Isle of Man" – 1903 "Good-night, Little Girl" – 1904 "The Little Irish Postman" – 1904 "You Wish You Were A Girl" – 1904 "Welcome Home, Sailor Boy!" – 1905 "Betty, I'm Pining" – 1906 "Little Cloud with the Silv'ry Lining" – 1907 "My Chateau in Barcelona" – 1907 "The House, the Flat and the Bungalow" – 1907 "Alphonso, My Alphonso" – 1909 "Mum-mum-mum-Mary" – 1909 "Boss of the House" – 1910 "In Your Old Tam-O'-Shanter" – 1910 "The Kelly" – 1910 "O'Brien" – 1911 "Hogmanay" – 1912 "You Must Come Round on Saturday" – 1912 "We Must Have a Song about the Isle of Man" – 1912 with Andrew N. Allen "Let's All Go into the Ballroom" – 1912 with Walt Alwyn "Kicking Up a Row Like That" – 1900 with George Arthurs "Making Up the Quarrel" – 1904 "Bashful!" – 1906 "Costumes, Gowns & Frocks" – 1907 "Fire! Fire! Fire!" – 1907 "Firelight" – 1907 "Get It Over!" – 1907 "Put Me Amongst the Girls" – 1907 "Don't Be Ridiculous, Nicholas!" – 1908 "I Could Get Along So Nicely With You" – 1908 "I'm Not Looking for a Beautiful Girl" – 1908 "I've Been Fishing for Pearls" – 1908 with Edgar Bateman "Mrs. Carter" – 1900 "The Garden Filled With Gold" – 1904 "Dear Little Shadow" – 1905 "It's Our Silver Wedding" – 1907 with Harry Castling "Let's All Go Down the Strand" – 1904 "Good-Night, Number One!" – 1905 "Hello, Little Girl! Who Are You?" – 1905 "It's the Best World We've Ever Seen" – 1905 "Little Glow-worm!" – 1905 "Bangalore" – 1906 "Barbados" – 1906 "Farewell, New York!" – 1906 "If Your Hair Were Not So Curly" – 1906 "Rowing To Hampton Court" – 1907 "I Would Still Love You" – 1908 "Meet Me, Jenny, When the Sun Goes Down" – 1908 "Pull Yourselves Together, Girls" – 1909 "The Girl in the Clogs and Shawl" – 1909 (cited in E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India) "The Singer Was Irish" – 1910 "Have a Banana!" – 1910 "I'm the Man That Buried Flanagan" – 1911 "We All Go the Same Way Home" – 1911 with Charles Collins "Come and Hear Him Play His Oom-Tera-Ra" – 1909 "On the Same Place Every Time" – 1910 with Worton David "Have You Heard John James O'Hara?" – 1911 "Follow The Footsteps in the Snow" – 1912 "They're All Single by the Seaside" – 1911 "Hold Your Hand Out You Naughty Boy" – 1914 "Keep Your Head Down, Fritzi Boy (We Saw You)" – 1918 with Charles Deane "All Have A Dinner With Me" – 1893 with W. Farrell "Irish As She's Spoken" – 1893 with Albert Hall "Still His Whiskers Grew" – ? "Maggie Marney" – 1894 "Oh Where is My Wandering Boy To-Night?" – 1894 "A Glorious Sprig of Shamrock for Your Coat" – 1900 "The Baby's Name" – 1900 "My Blind Norah" – 1901 with W. Hargreaves "Little Yellow-bird" – 1903 with Fred W. Leigh "Dominic McCue" – 1906 "Goo-Goo Land" – 1908 with Will Letters "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" – 1908 "The Kelly Two-Step" – 1909 "Flanagan" – 1910 "Hi, Hi, Hi, Mr. McKie" – 1911 with Dan Lipton "Don't Tell the World Your Troubles" – ? "If I Had A Girl As Nice As You" – ? "Run, Run, You Little Ones (Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!)" - 1904 "The Ugly Duckling" – 1904 "Go Away Mr. Crocodile" – 1904 "Bombombay" – 1905 "Ain't Yer Gwin Ter Say 'How Do?'" – 1906 "As I Stand by the Old Church Door" – 1906 "It is the Scarecrow" – 1906 "Put Me Amongst The Girls" – 1907 "My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl" – 1908 "Oh, Oh Antonio" – 1908 "Take Me Back to the Isle of Man!" – 1908 "I Only Got Married To-Day" – 1909 "I'll Be Cross, Arabella" – 1909 "Plink Plonk, Or: The Skin of a Spanish Onion" – 1909 "We Don't Want More Daylight" – 1909 "I Shall Sulk" – 1910 "Shirts" – 1910 "The First Time That I've Been in Love" – 1910 "We'll Treat You like One of Our Own" – 1910 "No Wonder I Look Jolly" – 1911 "You Must All Do as I Do" – 1912 "Beautiful, Beautiful Bed" – 1915 "Bed, Wonderful Bed" – 1915 with Dan Lipton and Magini "I Wonder What It Feels Like To Be Poor" – 1920 with Dan Lipton and John Neat "She's A Lassie from Lancashire" – 1907 with Dan Lipton and Hugh Owen "I've a Garden in Sweden" – 1907 "If You Were The Only Girl on Earth" – 1908 with Hugh Owen "Don't Throw Stones at Other People's Windows" – 1907 with George A. Stephens "I'm the Best Pal I've Ever Had!" – 1908 with R.P. Weston and F.J. Barnes "I Don't Like Your Stovepipe Hat" – 1907