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Thread #106531   Message #2202472
Posted By: goatfell
26-Nov-07 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Plumbers and Jiners [joiners] (W Nicoll)
Subject: Lyr Add: GRANNY'S ARMCHAIR
I remember a song called Granny's Armchair and it uses the same tune as Plumbers and Jiners.

Tom

here are the words:
GRANNY'S ARMCHAIR


VERSE 1
My Grandmother, she at the age of eighty-three
One day, in May, was taken ill an' died
After she was dead, the will, of course, was read
By a lawyer, as we all stood by her side

VERSE 2
To my brother, it was found
She had left a hundred pound
To the same unto my Sister, I declare
But when he came to me
The lawyer said I see
She has left to you her old armchair

VERSE 3
How they pittered, how they laughed
How my Brother an' my Sister too
When they heard the lawyer declare
Granny only left to me
Her old armchair

VERSE 4
I thought it hardly fair
Said I didn't care
An' in the evenin' took the chair away
My Brother at me laughed
An' he said, it will come useful, John
Someday, when you settle down in life
An' find you a girl to be your wife

VERSE 5
You find it very handy, I declare
On a cold and winter night
When the fire is burnin' bright
You can set, in your old armchair

VERSE 6
What the lawyer said, was true
For in a year or two
Strange to say I settled down in married life
At first, a girl did court
And then the ring I bought
Took her to the church an' made her my wife

VERSE 7
Now the dear girl an' me
Are as happy as can by
And when my work was over
Each night I stay at home
An' be seated in my ole armchair

VERSE 8
One night the chair fell down
When I picked it up I found
The seat had fallen out, upon the floor
An' there before my eyes
I saw to my surprise
A lot of notes, ten thousand pounds or more

VERSE 9
When my Brother heerd of this
The poor feller, I confess
Went nearly wild with rage an' tore his hair
But I only laughed at him
Jim, don't you wish you had the old armchair

VERSE 10
No more they pitered, no more they laughed
No more my brother an' sister laughed
When they heard the lawyer declare
Granny only left to me
Her old armchair