Henry Castling (19 April 1865 – 26 December 1933) was an English lyricist of music hall songs.
Castling was born in Newington, London, the son of a street musician.
She Bumps" (1899), sung by Charles Bignall, followed by "Just Like the Ivy" (1902), performed by Marie Kendall.
[1] By 1907, he had started to collaborate with another writer, Fred Godfrey, on songs such as "I’ll Tell Tilly On The Telephone" (1907), "Meet Me, Jennie, When The Sun Goes Down" (1907), "I Want You to See My Girl" (1908), and "Take Me Back to Yorkshire" (1910), which was later used by Noël Coward in his 1933 film Cavalcade.
(1912) with Charles Collins; "The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy" (1916) with Harry Carlton; and, several years later, "Don’t Have Any More, Mrs. Moore" (1926), written with James Walsh and performed successfully by Lily Morris.