Half A Sixpence 1963 Flash Bang Wallop

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 02 May 2006
2006

[Kipps:] All lined up in a wedding group
here we are for the photograph.
All dressed up in a morning suit
all trying not to laugh.
Since the early cave man in his fur,
took a trip to Gretna Green,
there's always been a photographer,
to record the happy scene.

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
click, what a picture, what a photograph!
Poor old soul, blimey what a joke,
hat blown off in a cloud of smoke.
[All:] Clap hands, stamp your feet,
bang it on the big bass drum,
What a picture, what a picture,
Rum tiddely umpum pum pum pum,
stick it in your fam'ly album!

[Kipps:] The same thing happened long ago
when man was in his prime.
And what went on we only know
from the snaps they took at the time.
When Adam and Eve in a birthday suit
decided to get wed,
as Adam was about to taste the fruit,
the man with the cam'ra said:

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
click, what a picture, what a photograph!
Poor old Eve, there with nothing on,
face all red and the fig leaf gone!
[All:] Clap hands, stamp your feet,
bang it on the big bass drum,
What a picture, what a picture,
Rum tiddely umpum pum pum pum,
stick it in your fam'ly album!

[Kipps:] You've read it in the folio
or seen the Shakespeare play,
how Juliet fell for Romeo
in the merry month of May.
When he tried to climb the orchard wall,
to reach his lady fair,
when he tumbled, she began to bawl,
as he floated through the air:

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
click, what a picture, what a photograph!
Poor young chap what a night he spent,
tights all torn and his rapier bent!
[All:] Clap hands, stamp your feet,
bang it on the big bass drum,
What a picture, what a picture,
Rum tiddely umpum pum pum pum,
stick it in your fam'ly album!

[Kipps:] King Henry the Eighth had sev'ral wives
including Ann Boleyn,
and he made an album of their lives
with all their photos in.
As Ann Boleyn was on her knees
dressed in her very best frock,
King Henry shouted: "Smile dear please,"
as her head rolled off the block:

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
click, what a picture, what a photograph!
Comes the print in a little while,
lost her head but she kept her smile.
[All:] Clap hands, stamp your feet,
bang it on the big bass drum,
What a picture, what a picture,
Rum tiddely umpum pum pum pum,
stick it in your fam'ly album!

[Kipps:] When Napoleon married Josephine
there was just the same to do,
he galloped home from the battle scene,
all the way from Waterloo,
and as he came straight from off his horse
to the boudoir where she sat,
she said to him, in French of course,
as he took of his cocked hat.

Hold it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
click, what a picture, what a photograph!
There she was with a big huzzah
all caught up in her oolala!
[All:] Clap hands, stamp your feet,
bang it on the big bass drum,
What a picture, what a picture,
Rum tiddely umpum pum pum pum,
stick it in the fam'ly album!
[Kipps:] Stick it in the fam'ly
stick it in the fam'ly
[All:] Stick it in the fam'ly album!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Half A Sixpence 1963 Flash Bang Wallop
by David Heneker
© MCMLXIII by Britannia Music Co.Ltd.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesdat 02 May 2006 at 22.46
in association with Doug Grierson
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