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Thread #5006   Message #28499
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-May-98 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When Father Papered the Parlour
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: WHEN FATHER PAPERED THE PARLOUR
Aha! Look what I found in the library!-Joe Offer-
(from "Music Hall Song Book, by Peter Gammond, 1975)
[Also, the sheet music can be seen at Indiana University--but it only shows verses 1-3.]

WHEN FATHER PAPERED THE PARLOUR
"Written and composed by Weston and Barnes" [R. P. Weston (1878-1936) and Fred J. Barnes (1873-1917)]
Copyright by Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 1909.

1. Our parlor wanted papering, and Pa said it was waste
To call a paperhanger in, and so he made some paste.
He bought some rolls of paper, got a ladder and a brush,
And with my mummy's nightgown on, at it he made a rush.
CHORUS: When Father papered the parlour
You couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there,
Paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling,
The children stuck to the floor.
I never knew a blooming family
So 'stuck up' before.
2. The pattern was 'blue roses' with its leaves red, white, and brown;
He'd stuck it wrong way up and now, we all walk upside down.
And when he trimm'd the edging off the paper with the shears,
The cat got underneath it, and Dad cut off both its ears. CHORUS

3. Soon dad fell down the stairs and dropp'd his paperhanger's can
On little Henrietta sitting there with her young man,
The paste stuck them together, as we thought 'twould be for life,
We had to fetch the parson in to make them man and wife. CHORUS

4. We're never going to move away from that house any more
For Father's gone and stuck the chairs and table to the floor,
We can't find our piano, though it's broad and rather tall,
We think that it's behind the paper Pa stuck on the wall. CHORUS

5. Now, Father's sticking in the pub, through treading in the paste,
And all the family's so upset, they've all gone pasty faced.
While Pa says, now that Ma has spread the news from north to south,
He wishes he had dropped a blob of paste in Mother's mouth. CHORUS


MIDI file: WHENFA~1.MID
Timebase: 192
Name: When Father Papered the Parlour
Text: By Weston and Barnes
Copyright: Copyright © Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd.
Key: G
TimeSig: 6/8 24 8
Start
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End


This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here
ABC format:
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T:When Father Papered the Parlour
M:6/8
Q:1/4=120
K:G
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G2EE2F|E5B|d2dd2B|d2dd2B|A2AA2B|A5B|d2dd2B|
d2dd2B|G2GA2^A|B5B|E2FGAA|B3e2B|ccce2c|B6|
BFFF3|BEEE3|G2EG2E|G2AB3|EEFGAA|B3e2B|c2ccGA|
B5B|e2ed2d|B2BAGA|B2AF2G|E21/8||

(Now, the one I learned was the second one Rechal posted, WHEN PAPA PUT THE PAPER ON THE WALL. I'd sure like to see full lyrics and a MIDI for that one.)