"Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?", music and lyrics by C.W. Murphy and Will Letters (1908), is a British music hall song, originally titled "Kelly From the Isle of Man". It was adapted for American audiences by William McKenna in 1909 for the American musical The Jolly Bachelors. The song concerns an Irishwoman looking for her boyfriend. In 1926 it was made into an animated short of the same title, and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler. In 1943 the song was performed in the film musical Hello Frisco, Hello. In 1978's "Ziegfeld:The Man & His Women", Inga Swenson, as Nora Bayes, sings the song during the scene of the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1908.
Lyrics
Kelly and his sweetheart wore a very pleasant smile,
And sent upon a holiday they went from Mona's Isle,
They landed safe in London but alas it's sad to say,
For Kelly lost his little girl up Piccadilly way.
She searched for him in vain and then of course began to fret,
And this is the appeal she made to everyone she met:
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
K-E-double-L-Y.
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Find him if you can!
He's as bad as old Antonio,
Left me on my own-ee-o,
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Kelly from the Isle of Man!
When it started raining she exclaimed, "What shall I do?"
For Kelly had her ticket and her spending money too,
She wandered over London like a hound upon the scent,
At last she found herself outside the Houses of Parliament.
She got among the suffragettes who chained her to the grille,
And soon they heard her shouting in a voice both loud and shrill:
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
K-E-double-L-Y.
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Find him if you can!
He's as bad as old Antonio,
Left me on my own-ee-o,
Has anybody here seen Kelly?
Kelly from the Isle of Man!
External links
- Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (American lyrics)
- Internet Movie Database (1926 animated version)
- Internet Movie Database (1928 live-action film)
- Internet Movie Database (1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello)
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