View Shirley Temple as Sara and Arthur Treacher as Bertie singing and dancing in a scene from the film “The Little Princess,” 1939
A film clip from The Little Princess (1939), with Shirley Temple and Arthur Treacher.
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Transcript
PATIENT 1: Don't go yet, lad. Give us a song.
PATIENTS: Yeah! Give us a song.
BERTIE: How about it, dear? Shall we sing them a song to cheer them up? Our old specialty, what?
SARA: Not today, Mr. Bertie.
BERTIE: Oh, come on, darling. Let's try and forget our own troubles and do something for these lads, shall we?
SARA: All right. I'll try.
BERTIE: Oh, you darling. What about "The Old Kent Road"?
PATIENT 1: That's the one! Macky'll play it for you.
PATIENT 2: 'Ave a go at it, Mac.
[Music in]
BERTIE AND SARA: Ev'ry evenin' at the stroke of five,
Me and the missus takes a little drive.
You'd say, "Wonderful they're still alive,"
If you saw that little donkey go.
When we start the blessed donkey stops.
'E won't move, so out I quickly 'ops.
Pals start whackin' him, when down he drops.
Someone says he wasn't made to go.
"Wot cher!" all the neighbors cried.
"Who yer gonna meet, Bill?
Have yer bought the street, Bill?"
Laugh! I thought I should've died.
Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
PATIENTS: "Wot cher!" all the neighbors cried.
"Who yer gonna meet, Bill?
Have yer bought the street, Bill?"
Laugh! I thought I should've died.
Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
[Music out]
PATIENTS: Yeah! Give us a song.
BERTIE: How about it, dear? Shall we sing them a song to cheer them up? Our old specialty, what?
SARA: Not today, Mr. Bertie.
BERTIE: Oh, come on, darling. Let's try and forget our own troubles and do something for these lads, shall we?
SARA: All right. I'll try.
BERTIE: Oh, you darling. What about "The Old Kent Road"?
PATIENT 1: That's the one! Macky'll play it for you.
PATIENT 2: 'Ave a go at it, Mac.
[Music in]
BERTIE AND SARA: Ev'ry evenin' at the stroke of five,
Me and the missus takes a little drive.
You'd say, "Wonderful they're still alive,"
If you saw that little donkey go.
When we start the blessed donkey stops.
'E won't move, so out I quickly 'ops.
Pals start whackin' him, when down he drops.
Someone says he wasn't made to go.
"Wot cher!" all the neighbors cried.
"Who yer gonna meet, Bill?
Have yer bought the street, Bill?"
Laugh! I thought I should've died.
Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
PATIENTS: "Wot cher!" all the neighbors cried.
"Who yer gonna meet, Bill?
Have yer bought the street, Bill?"
Laugh! I thought I should've died.
Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
[Music out]