Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes.
Most of them were comic in nature.
There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten.
In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
They number in their tens of thousands and include the following: Many of the following burlesque songs, which were written before the First World War, continue to be sung today in certain British Rugby Football clubs.