Good-bye-ee!

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"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.{{citation |page=146 |title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History |author=Richard Anthony Baker |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2014 |isbn=9781473837188}} They then travelled to Brighton and wrote the song on a wet afternoon in their cabin under the pier.{{citation |page=56 |journal=Theatrephile |number=5–8 |year=1984 |publisher=D.F. Cheshire and S. McCarthy |title=Smart Serenaders}}

The song lent its name to "Goodbyeee", the final episode of the sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9586872/The-True-History-of-the-Black-Adder-by-J-F-Roberts-extract.html |title=The True History of the Black Adder by J F Roberts: extract |last=Roberts |first=J.F. |date=9 October 2012 |website=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=6 February 2017}}