<P> The refrain describes the reaction of the neighbours to the news of the couple's good fortune . "Wot cher!" was a Cockney greeting--a contraction of "What cheer" used as a greeting since the Middle Ages . To "knock em" is an idiomatic phrase, to knock them on the head i.e. to stun them . </P> <P> The song goes on to describe the initial unreliability of the moke (slang for donkey) and the way the couple use it to impress the neighbourhood by doing the "grand", behaving in a grandiose way as if they were "carriage folk", a family who could afford to own their own carriage, and who might drive a "four in' and", a carriage with four horses, in Rotten Row, one of the most fashionable horse rides in London . </P> <P> A "cove" is a low class fellow . A "Dutch" is a wife, being cockney rhyming slang for "Duchess of Fife" which rhymes with "wife". She says "I' ates a Bus because it's low!", in order to tease her lodger, meaning she now considers the bus to be low class and beneath her . </P> <P> Last week down our alley came a toff Nice old geezer with a nasty cough . Sees my missus, takes his topper off In a very gentlemanly way! "Ma'am" says he, "I' ave some news to tell, Your rich uncle Tom of Camberwell, Popp'd off recent, which it ain't a sell, Leaving you' is little donkey shay ." </P>

Knocked em in the old kent road chords