I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea! I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom!" and listen to the brass bands. "And there's lots of girls beside, I should like to be beside, Beside the seaside, Beside the sea."
AUTHOR: John A, Glover-Kind (source: Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
KEYWORDS: travel wordplay thief | sea holiday
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, pp. 220-221, "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" (1 excerpt)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "I do like to be beside the seaside"
Roud #32459
SAME TUNE:
The Emma-Gees Song (File: PSoS349A)
NOTES [70 words]: The sheet music for this says it was sung by Mark Sheridan. The text in Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar is just a fragment, the full song has verses in which various people have seaside escapades. One of those references is "William Sykes the burglar" -- a curious allusion to the housebreaker in Dickens's Oliver Twist -- which makes me wonder if there might not be some other covert references in the song.
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File: PSoS220

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