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Thread #136997   Message #3132502
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Apr-11 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/ADD: When Father Said He'd Pay the Rent
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the day that father paid the rent(Formby)
The song is also on the CD "A Music Hall Sampler," by Windyridge Music Hall Recordings. You can download it for £0.79 on this page. I listened to a free sample and transcribed this:

The house that we are living in, it never cost a cent.
Although Pa's lived there twenty years, he's never paid the rent.
But one day he told Mother that he thought it time he did.
The shock so upset Mother, that she fainted with a kid.
The canary fell down off its perch and murmured, "Goodbye, all."
The pictures from the nails all slipped and tumbled off the wall.
The fire went out, the boiler burst, the dog refused to bark,
And little Willie tried to [eat the railings round the park?]....