Keep Your Seats Please - George Formby

There’s a catchword getting all the craze, it’s the latest phrase

Everybody says

Hold tight keep your sets please

No one knows just why it first broke out, what it’s all about

Why do people shout

Hold tight keep your seats please

What a sensation, talk of the nation, how it travels round

Even the Hindoos, Kaffirs and Zulus, they’ve all got it

Hear them holla it

In the talkies holding hands perhaps, all you girls and chaps

On each others laps

Hold tight keep your seats please

If you’re in a public bar one day and hear a Scotchman say

For the drinks I’ll pay

Hold tight keep your seats please

If a lady speaker starts to bawl, I can prove to all why

You women fall

Hold tight keep your seats please

What a sensation, talk of the nation, how it travels round.

Even the Hindoos, Kaffirs and Zulus, they’ve all got it

Hear them holla it

Your old flame upon her wedding day hears the parson say

Who’ll give her away

Hold tight keep your seats please

On the donkeys by the gay seaside should the saddle slide

Upside down you’ll ride but hold tight keep your seats please

If your landlady who’s so precise says the chicken’s nice

Let me help you twice

Hold tight keep your seats please

What a sensation, talk of the nation, how it travels round

Even the Hindoos, Kaffirs and Zulus, they’ve all got it

Hear them holla it

On the swing boats when you ladies go, mind the crowds below

Take care what you show

Hold tight keep your seats please