Good-bye-ee!

"Good-bye-ee!" is a popular song which was written and composed by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee. Performed by music hall stars Florrie Forde, Daisy Wood, and Charles Whittle, it was a hit in 1917.

This article is about the First World War song. For the Blackadder episode, see Goodbyeee.

Weston and Lee got the idea for the song when they saw a group of factory girls calling out goodbye to soldiers marching to Victoria station. They were saying the word in the exaggerated way which had been popularised as a catchphrase by comedian Harry Tate. They then travelled to Brighton and wrote the song on a wet afternoon in their cabin under the pier.

The song lent its name to "Goodbyeee", the final episode of the sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth.

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