Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
'Good-bye-ee!' is a popular song 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.
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.
Performed by Courtland and Jefferies.
Images:
British soldiers waving good bye to loved ones as they leave Victoria Station for the front, 1915.
New Zealand soldiers watching an open air performance in France, 1917.
A still of soldiers enjoying a meal from Peter Jackson's documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old'.
'Good-bye-ee!' is a popular song 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.
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.
Performed by Courtland and Jefferies.
Images:
British soldiers waving good bye to loved ones as they leave Victoria Station for the front, 1915.
New Zealand soldiers watching an open air performance in France, 1917.
A still of soldiers enjoying a meal from Peter Jackson's documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old'.
