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A Group of Early Postage
Stamp Related Song Sheets
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The music and lyrics for
"The Penny Post Act" are here: (page 1, page
2, page 3, page 4, page
5)
The lyrics for "The
Stamp Collector's Song" (J.W. Palmer was a stamp dealer) are
transcribed below:
Collectors there are of several sorts. The collector of
taxes we all must respect. Some people will talk of collecting their
thoughts, and other poor souls have no thoughts to collect. The collector
of china of dishes and plates is sometimes cracked as the ware which
elates. But free from the freak of ill fortune which damps is the
collector of postage stamps! (refrain)
So here's to the praise of the best of craze, and the daily increase of
our treasures, for as long as it pays let us follow the craze the pleasure
of kings and king of all pleasures. With it's fortune un-told, for the
young and old it has charms for the judge and the rector, for the clerk on
his stool and the youngster at school. Hurrah for the stamp collector
(refrain).
Like wine and cigars the stamps on your letter the older they get, they
grow all better, so examine them well, for sometimes they are sold, like
the lamp of Alladin, new ones for old! (refrain)
Then beware of the scamps who deal in forged stamps who plunder in spite
of legal measures and follow the craze as long as it pays (refrain)
Each stamp like every dog has its day, and every stamp has its tale
unfurl'd in a folic, historical kind of a way, they teach us history of
all the world and if they had voices as plain as their faces, they'd say
in the tongues of their own native places, beware of the reprint and
forgery and and deal with Palmer of the Strand (refrain)
The laws vindicator, the famed exterminator, the champion of parliament'ry
measures, is Palmer the protector, the inspector, the detector, minister
in chief to the king of all pleasure with its fortune untold, for the
young and the old. (refrain)
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