Something On The Side - Ray Jessel

Marriage is a sacrament, a duty and a joy

The blessed union of a girl and boy

It’s caring and it’s sharing through the good times and the rough

But pretty soon the husband finds enough is not enough

A man must have his mate

A groom must have his bride

Plus a little something on the side

Just to be respectable a fellow takes a wife

Though she’s sweet and soft and gentle he needs something supplemental

Someone who can give his life that little extra vim

Someone that’ll be doing what his wife won’t do for him

Somebody to satisfy that slightly wayward whim

Just a little something on the side

Something on the side, something on the side

Something on the quiet that can always be denied

Someone to embrace far from the place where you reside

Just a little something on the side

A genty says to me ‘How'd you like to be.

Be my little something on the side?'

In a little love nest on the far side of the town

We can play at slap and tickle

Hide the sausage, dunk the pickle

I said ‘Right dear, I’ll be chill if you have got the jack

What I’ve got is yours dear if you’d like to have a crack'

Now he has me on me front and sometimes on me back

And sometimes we try something on the side

Something on the side, something on the side

Something on the quiet that can always be denied

Someone to embrace far from the place where you reside

Just a little something on the side

Who can tell us why a little sugar pie

Is always twice as sweet when it’s eaten on the slide

A wife is very nice but you’ve not lived until you’ve tried

Just a little something on the surreptitious side

A diddle diddle dumpling

A tumpa tumpa tumphing

Just a little something on the side