Clergyman's

“There's a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch;”
— There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green;There's a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow,And you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.- Billy Bennett

“And you can't part a boy from his father,”
— You can't part a boy from his dad,You can't part a Scotchman from moneyNo matter how many he's had.You can't part the skin of a sausageOr a dad from his fond son and heir,And you can't part the hair on a bald-headed manFor there'll be no parting there.- Billy Bennett

“Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,”
— So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said: ""Your green tie for my little yellow dog.- Billy Bennett

“She knows I'm a deserter from the Scottish Fusiliers,”
— She knows I stole a blind-man's can...that got me seven years!She knows I've been connected with a gang of West-End Pests,And the police have had me twice inside the cage;And she knows I mix with ladies that have got a shady past,But my mother doesn't know I'm on the stage.- Billy Bennett

“Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon”
— Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:""Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomackSonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.""Translation: ""If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.""That's a motto for the likes of me and you.- Billy Bennett

“Billy Bennett – I speak of the artist – was forthright, bawdy, and wholesome… grossness had that gusto about it which is like a high wind blowing over a noisome place.”
— Billy Bennett