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Thread #51276   Message #1937168
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Jan-07 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Everybody Works but Father
Subject: Lyr Add: EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER (Jean Havez)
This is from the sheet music at Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:

EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER
Jean Havez, 1905

1. Every morning at six o'clock, I go to my work.
Overcoat buttoned up 'round my neck, no job would I shirk.
Winter wind blows 'round my head, cutting up my face.
I tell you what I'd like to have: my dear old father's place.

CHORUS: Everybody works but Father, and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire, smoking his pipe of clay.
Mother takes in washing. So does Sister Ann.
Everybody works at our house but my old man.

2. A man named Work moved into town, and father heard the news.
With Work so near, my father started shaking in his shoes.
When Mister Work walked by my house, he saw with great surprise
My father sitting in his chair with blinders on his eyes.

3. At beating carpets, Father said, he simply was immense.
We took the parlor carpet out and hung it on the fence.
My mother said, "Now, beat it, dear, with all your might and main"
And father beat it right back to the fireside again.