Cocoa Song

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This was recorded at a former residents' reminiscence group in 1988-89.

Stan Byers: There was 4 of us what used to sing it.  But I think there’s only me knows it now.

The cocoa that they gave us they say is mighty fine
It’s good for cuts and bruises and tastes like iodine
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go home

The stockings that they gave us they say they’re mighty appear(?)
We put them on the clothes line and watch them disappear
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go home

The bacon that they gave us they say is mighty fine
A leg fell off the table and killed a pal of mine
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go home

The bacon that they gave us they say is mighty fine
The staff get the bacon, the patients get the rind
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go home

The pullovers that they gave us they say they’re mighty fine
One of Betty Gable’s will fit in two of mine
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go home

The money that they gave us they say is mighty fine
They give us hundred shillings and take back ninety-nine
So I don’t want no more of Royal Albert life
Gee ma I want to go -
Gee ma I want to go –
Gee ma I want to go home

… Eeh that was sung nineteen fifty eight… Nineteen fifty eight when we started camping at Top Walk… Just behind the back of Derby Home…