Ee by Gum

Ee by Gum - Gracie Fields

The Yankee says Gee Wiz

The Scotsman says 'Ood aye

The Welshman says Indeed you Goodness

Goodness knows just why

In Lancashire and Yorkshire

Ever since the world began

This is the expression of a strong and silent man

'Ee by gum

'Ee hee by gum

The only thing he ever says is 'ee by gum

He says it when he's happy

And he says it when he's glum

He means an awful lot when he says

'Ee ee by gum

He hears it in the cradle before

He cuts a tooth

He learns it as a baby

And he says it as a youth

And when he goes a courting

And his girl goes

He looks into her eyes and whispers

Eee ee by gum

The Frenchmen say la la

The Irish say Bedad

Os Bobbikins is what they said

When Cromwell was a lad

The Spaniard says Karumba

And the eskimo says wow

But none of them mean half as much

As what we're singing now

'Ee by gum 'ee hee by gum

The only thing he ever says is

'Ee hee ee by gum

He says it when he's happy

And he says it when he's glum

He means an awful lot when he says 'ee by gum

He hears it in the cradle before he cuts a tooth

He learns it as a baby

And he says it as a youth

At the Isle of Mann or Blackpool

For a while he lose his chum

When his chum says

Wheres thou been lad

He says 'ee by gum

Hee ee ee 'ee by gum

'Ee hee ee by gum