Destined to be in Gloster?

Now in my seventies, having lived in Africa, Scotland, the Midlands of England, and Australia, I am a resident of Gloucestershire, living in a village near Cirencester.

The older spelling of Gloucester was Gloster. Way back when I was five, there was a hit song, with words including:

Put another nickel in

In the nickelodeon

All I want is having you

And music, music, music

I'd do anything for you
Anything you'd want me to
All I want is kissin' you
And music, music, music

Closer, my dear , come closer

The nicest part of any melody

Is when you're dancing close to me

So, put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is lovin' you
And music, music, music

[Instrumental Interlude]

Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is having you
And music, music, music

I'd do anything for you
Anything you'd want me to
All I want is kissin' you
And music, music, music

Closer, my dear, come closer
The nicest part of any melody
Is when you're dancing close to me

So, put another nickel in

In the nickelodeon

All I want is lovin' you

And music, music, music

However, my elder brother, Donald, thought that 'Closer, my dear, come closer, was 'Gloster, O Clement Gloster' and so he taught us to sing it - and it became our musical item. I recall singing it for Uncle David and our cousins, Muriel, Jean, 'Little' Edna (to differentiate her from Auntie Edna, her mother) and Doreen, in the flat we lived in the High Street, Dundee, in 1950 or 1951 before we returned to Africa.

Ad now, all these years later, I live in Gloustershire just half an hour away from its capital, Gloucester, or Gloster, as it used to be written.