this song was parodied in the now-much-better-known "burlington bertie from bow" (1915) credited to william hargreaves and sung by his wife, ella shields, who performed the song whilst dressed in male attire as the sort of character known as a 'broken down swell'. unlike the original song, bertie's pretensions to gentility are belied by his residence in bow, in the poverty-stricken east end of london, though his status as an idler ironically links him to the leisured aristocratic class, who reside in the west end.