“Are You There, Moriarity?”
Description
"I'm a policeman sheikh or a pip or a peak, And the girls around my beat, So nice and clean they say, That's him... I'm a handy fellow at a custard, I take it into 'custardy,' And the kids all cry as I go by, 'Are you there, Moriarity?'"
Notes
For background on Harrigan and Braham, see the notes to "Babies on Our Block." - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Good Old Mountain Dew" (tune, per OLochlainn)
Broadsides
- LOCSheet, sm1876 07624, "Are You There Moriarty!," Wm. A. Pond (New York), 1876(tune)
References
- Meredith/Anderson, p. 149, "Are You There, Moriarity" (1 text, 1 tune)
- BI, MA149