My Word, You Do Look Queer Explained

My Word, You Do Look Queer
Cover:	My_Word_You_Do_Look_Queer_Ernest_Hastings.jpg
Artist:	Ernest Hastings
Released:	1922
Genre:	Music hall, monologue
A-Side:	"Gerrard 64"
Label:	His Master's Voice

"My Word, You Do Look Queer" is a comic monologue written by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston. It was first performed and recorded in 1922 by English entertainer Ernest Hastings,^[1] and revived by Stanley Holloway who recorded it in 1938 and again in 1959.

Lyrics

The song tells of a man recovering from illness, but feeling better. Yet his friends insist on telling him, one after the other, that he looks "queer" (that is, strange or different). He comes to believe that he must indeed be close to death, but revives after a visit to an undertaker's.^{[2] [3]}

External links

• Recording by Stanley Holloway

Notes and References

1. https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Hastings,_Ernest Ernest Hastings, Petrucci Music Library
2. Richard Anthony Baker, British Music Hall: an illustrated history, Pen & Sword, 2014,, p. 146.
3. https://www.monologues.co.uk/Stanley-Holloway/You-Do-Look-Queer.htm "My Word, You Do Look Queer", Monologues.co.uk