Everybody Works But Father 1905

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 12 November 2010
2010

Every morning at six o'clock
I go to my work,
Overcoat buttoned up round my neck
no job would I shirk,
Winter wind blows round my head
cutting up my face,
I tell you what I'd like to have
my dear old fathers place.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

A man named Work moved in to town,
and father heard the news,
With Work, so near my father
started shaking in his shoes,
When Mister Work walked by my house
he saw with great surprise,
My father sitting in his chair
with blinders on his eyes.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

At beating carpets father said
he simply was immense,
We took the parlor carpet out
and hung it on the fence,
My mother said: "Now beat it dear,
with all your might and main,"
And father beat it right back
to the fireside again.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

Everybody works but father
and he sits around all day,
Feet in front of the fire
smoking his pipe of clay,
Mother takes in washing,
so does sister Ann,
Everybody works at our house
but my old man.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Everybody Works But Father 1905
by Jean Havel
Lewis Dockstader and His Great Minstrel Company
© MCMV by Helf & Hager Co.Inc. N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 12 November 2010 at 13.49
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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