And Then Look Out For Squalls

DESCRIPTION: "And then look out for squalls For when Baby comes, you'll see, It will take the both of you most of your time To look after Number Three."
AUTHOR: unknown (see NOTES)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: baby work
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 106, "And Then Look Out for Squalls" (1 fragment)
Roud #25384
NOTES [108 words]: Fowke, in her notes to Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, says that this fragment is from a music hall song by Alec Hurley and Daisy Dormer. She does not identify the song's title.
Hurley and Dormer were both music hall performers, popular enough to be featured (individually, not together) in a 1906 series of picture postcards, but I couldn't find records of them writing anything; I suspect they were the performers, not the authors. Gilbert and Sullivan used the line "and then -- look out for squalls" in the finale to Act I of "The Grand Duke," but the song in the operetta is not this. Whether it inspired this... I just don't know. - RBW
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