Artist: Hal Swain & his Band
Author: Tolchard Evans/Robert Hargreaves/Stanley Damerell
Label: Regal
Year: 1930

Toronto saxophone & cornet player with a contract in London hotels. Also cut a Jollity Farm (see there). Reissued on cd Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us (Lightning Tree).

End-line: "But there are no tigers in India. Not now, I've shot them all!" sounds awfully prophetic rather than just plain funny. Same punch-line was bettered by Flemish stand-up comic Urbanus where he hails his drastic powder against elephants in Flanders. "But there are no elephants in Flanders." "Not any longer. Good powder!"