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Thread #144766   Message #3348242
Posted By: Steve Gardham
08-May-12 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Song about Lodger/s? Got me stumped!
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Lodger/s? Got me stumped!
4 (The verse given by Warren)

There were two spare rooms in the villa where we dwell,
Take some lodgers, said my wife, I said, Oh very well;
So in the parlour in the window we put up a card to say,
Two young men lodgers wanted. they were there next day,
They made themselves at home and we got on quite nice,
They said our place was like a little paradise.
The missus took their breakfast up each morn at ten a.m.,
And she hopes that we never would part with them,
They were....
very....
When I asked them for the rent , well they paid me very quick,
With a hob-nailed boot and a half a brick.
One ran away with my wife one day,
But the best of it was you see--
The other one married my ma-in-law,
They......