Just As Father Used To Do.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. May 2001.

[Jeremiah] I remember clearly, ever since a lad,
Mother gave me good advice,
Father gave me bad.

Mother was a Quaker,
Father was a rip,

Mother kept my feet from straying,
Father made 'em slip.
Oh!

Anybody will admit,
my parents were so opposite,
and I inherit something from the two.

I realized, when quite a kid,
The sort of things that Mother did
were not the things that Father used to do.

[Chorus] Oh! anybody will admit
his parents were so opposite,
and he inherits something from the two.

[Jeremiah] Mamma adored her darling so,
she never smacked me hard, you know,
Well, not so hard as Father used to do.

[Jeremiah] When Mamma went walking
down the village street,

she would never look at men,
whom she chanc'd to meet.

Poor old Father's conduct,
some may criticize,

but what a connoisseur of ankles!
What a judge of eyes!
Oh!

Anybody will admit my parents were so opposite,
and I'm a sort of mixture of the two.

I follow Mother right enough,
until I meet a bit of fluff,
then I behave as Father used to do.

[Chorus] Oh! anybody will admit,
his parents were so opposite,
and he's a sort of mixture of the two.

[Jeremiah] You never heard dear Mother cry,
"Oh chase me!" to the passers by,
but that's what Father often used to do.

Mother didn't talk much,
chiefly, "Yea" and "Nay",

"Bother" was the strongest word
she was known to say.

Father, when he started,
wouldn't let things rest,

he'd the finest flow of language
any man possess'd.
Oh!

Anybody will admit,
my parents were so opposite,
and I resemble both from day to day.

If Mother slipp'd and bruis'd her knee
she simply murmur'd, "Dearie me!"
Which isn't quite what Father used to say.

[Chorus] Oh! anybody will admit,
his parents were so opposite,
and he resembles both from day to day.

[Jeremiah] Mamma my arm would gently pull,
and stuff my ears with cotton wool,
in case I heard what Father had to say!

[Jeremiah] Mother was short~sighted,
as some people are,

and without her spectacles
she could not see far.

Father's eyes were keener,
splendid sight he'd got,

he could see all sorts of things,
that other folks could not.
Oh!

Anybody will admit,
my parents were so opposite,
yet both were just as happy as could be.

If they were walking home at night
and Mother saw three lamps alight,
that's half the number Father used to see.

[Chorus] Oh! anybody will admit,
his parents were so opposite,
yet both were just as happy as could be.

[Jeremiah] When Mother took me to the Zoo,
I came across a snake or two,
but not the kind that Father used to see!

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Quaker08 Just As Father Used To Do 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 22 May 2001

Quaker08 Just As Father Used To Do 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 22 May
Quaker08 Just As Father Used To Do 1910
Music by Lionel Monckton
Words by Percy Greenbank
Copyright 1910 by Chappell and Co Ltd.
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 22 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones