Good-bye-ee!
"Good-bye-ee!" is a popular song which was written and composed by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee.[1] Performed by music hall stars Florrie Forde, Daisy Wood, and Charles Whittle, it was a hit in 1917.[1]
Weston and Lee got the idea for the song when they saw a group of factory girls calling out goodbye to soldiers marching to
The song lent its name to "Goodbyeee", the final episode of the sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth.[3]
Chorus
Good-bye-ee! good-bye-ee![4]
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee.
Tho' it's hard to part I know,
I'll be tickled to death to go.
Don't cry-ee! don't sigh-ee!
There's a silver lining in the sky-ee.
Bonsoir old thing, cheerio! chin chin!
Nah-poo! Toodle-oo!
Good-bye-ee!
The salutations at the end of the chorus are from various languages.
References
- ^ ISBN 9781473837188
- ^ "Smart Serenaders", Theatrephile (5–8), D.F. Cheshire and S. McCarthy: 56, 1984
- telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Akers, Peter (February 2017). "Goodbye-ee Lyrics". Song Lyrics From Around The World. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780199581443