If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between

DESCRIPTION: "If you saw my little backyard What a pretty spot you'd cry It's a picture on a sunny summer day...." From there, you can see many pretty places and things "if it wasn't for the houses in between." He could have more breeze "if it wasn't for...."
AUTHOR: Words: Edgar Bateman / M EARLIEST DATE: 1971 (Davison); Gue Elen reportedly started singing it in the 1890s
KEYWORDS: home nonballad | city
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ADDITIONAL: Peter Davison, _Songs of The British Music Hall_, Oak, 1971, pp. 192-196, "If It Wasn't for the "Ouses in Between" (1 text, 1 tune, as sung by Gus Elen)
Roud #32469
NOTES [13 words]: Minimally traditional, but there is one report of a sort of field collection. - RBW
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