The theme of the day is ‘puns.’ Good puns in song lyrics are certainly on the decline since the first half of the 20th century and it’s a shame! “And Her Mother Came, Too” was first performed in A-Z, a 1921 British Musical Revue.
First we have a cheeky story about an ever-present and overbearing Mother-in-Law:
My car will meet her—And her mother comes, too!
It’s a two-seater—Still her mother comes, too!
At Ciro’s when I am free, at dinner, supper or tea,
She loves to shimmy with me—And her mother does, too!
The song continues down this path, and then takes a cheeky turn:
She fainted just off the tee, my darling whisper’d to me
‘Jack, dear, at last we are free!—But her mother came to!
Ba-dum ching.
And Her Mother Came, Too
Music by Ivor Novello and Lyrics by Dion Titheradge
Ah so clever- they don’t wrote them like that anymore And that’s he estimable Jeremy Northam singing in the movie Gosford Park, full of other Ivor Novello classics.