Ralph T. Butler was a British songwriter, responsible for the lyrics of many popular songs of the 1930s and later, mostly with comic or novelty elements.

He was active as a songwriter from the late 1920s until the mid-1950s. Among his most famous songs were "All By Yourself In The Moonlight" (1929), published under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Jay Wallis, which reportedly sold over a million copies; "Let’s Sing The Cuddly Song" (written with Julian Wright, 1929); "The Sun Has Got His Hat On

The Sun Has Got His Hat On

The Sun Has Got His Hat On is one of the main songs in the musical Me and My Girl. It was written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler, and recorded in 1932 by Ambrose and his Orchestra, with vocals by Sam Browne....

" (1932), "Run Rabbit Run

Run Rabbit Run

Run Rabbit Run is a song written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler. The music was by Noel Gay and the song was originally sung by Flanagan and Allen....

" (1939), and "Hey! Little Hen" (1941), all co-written with Noel Gay

Noel Gay

Noel Gay was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows...

; "Let's All Go To The Music Hall" (1934), written with Harry Tilsley and Lawrence Wright; "There's A Lovely Lake In London" (1935), with Tolchard Evans

Tolchard Evans

Sydney Edmund Tolchard Evans was a British songwriter, composer, pianist and bandleader, whose works were popular from the 1920s to the 1960s....

 and Stanley Damerell; "Horsey Horsey

Horsey Horsey

Horsey, horsey is a children's song written in 1938 by Paddy Roberts, Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Ralph Butler and which was made popular for Jack Jackson, Billy Cotton and Henry Hall....

" (1938), with Paddy Roberts

Paddy Roberts (songwriter)

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; "Come And Have A Drink At The Victory Arms" (1941), with Tolchard Evans; and "Nellie the Elephant

Nellie the Elephant

Nellie the Elephant is a song written in 1956 by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart about a fictional intelligent elephant of the same name.-Original version:...

" (1956), written with Peter Hart. Another song, also co-written with Noel Gay, "We Don't Know Where We're Going

We Don't Know Where We're Going (1944 song)

"We Don't Know Where We're Going " is a popular song written by British composer Noel Gay and lyricist Ralph Butler, and published in 1944....

" (1944), was used to great effect during war scenes in the movie Overlord

Overlord (film)

Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white film written and directed by Stuart Cooper. Set around the D-Day invasion , Overlord is a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death...

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He died in 1969 in a London

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hospital, at the age of 84.