DESCRIPTION:
Robert Patrick Weston (1878 -1936) was a prolific English songwriter, who wrote popular music hall songs. He and co-writer, Bert Lee (1880 - 1946), are said to have written a song a day.

This is one of the songs sung by Christian Reynolds and his father, Paul, at the Saturday concert of the Hong Kong Folk Society Reunion in Halsway Manor, Somerset, in July 2014.

Lyrics:
A Sultan sat on his oriental mat
In his harem in downtown Persia
He took a sip of coffee, just a drip
And he said to his servant, Kersia,
"Ah, Kersia, Kersia, Kersia,
That's the worst cup of coffee in Persia,

'Cause all I want is a proper cup of coffee
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee
In a proper copper pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots
They are no use to me
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea."

In days of old when knights and men were bold
And whiskey was much cheaper
Ben Turpin rode to a coffee shop
And showed his pistols to the keeper
He said, "Stand and deliver!
Can't you see that I'm all a quiver?"

When Bonaparte found that he was in the cart
And he lost that Waterloo fight,
He gave his sword to Wellington, my Lord,
And he said, "Those British can't half fight.
Now you've had your Waterloo, sir
Tell me what am I having with you, sir?"

Now king Solomon and his queen would carry on
So we heard in the ancient scandals.
He bought her lots of silver coffee pots
With diamond legs and handles
And said the Queen of Sheba,
"I'd rather have any old tea-bag."

You can see a playlist of videos from the Hong Kong Folk Society Reunion here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCi_Xcl2_fAX04FWaiG0jTAuaYprYYKq8

Lyrics and chords of many of my songs are no longer available, as my website has expired. I am currently posting lyrics to the information panels on all my videos and those that are too long to post in full will be found here: https://raymondsfolkpage.wordpress.com