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Thread #171646 Message #4155573
Posted By: Monologue John
19-Oct-22 - 05:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs and Recitations of Weston & Lee
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs and Recitations of Weston & Lee
When father papered the parlour Written by Robert Weston & Fred Barnes Performed by Billy Williams 1910's
Our parlour wanted papering Pa said it was waste To call a paperhanger in and so we made some paste He bought some rolls of paper a ladder and a brush And with my Mummy's nightgown on at it he made a rush.
When Father papered the parlour, you couldn't see pa for paste Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, paste and paper everywhere Mother was stuck to the ceiling; the kids were stuck to the floor I never knew a blooming family so stuck up before.
The pattern was ‘blue roses' its leaves red white and brown He'd stuck it wrong way up and now we all walk upside down And when he trimmed the edging off the paper with the shears The cat got underneath it and Dad cut off both its ears.
Soon Dad fell down the stairs and dropped his paperhanger's can On little Henrietta sitting there with her young man The paste stuck them together as we'd thought 'twould be for life We had to fetch the parson in to make them man and wife.
We're never going to move away from that house any more For Father's gone and stuck the chairs table to the floor We can't find our piano though it's broad and rather tall We think that its behind the paper Pa stuck on the wall.
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.