I Love To Stay At Home 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 Nov 2006
2006

I don't go out nights,
I'm not about nights,
I'll tell you why I never roam:
I love my home,
so cozy.
The dizzy night life
may be the right life
but I don't like that kind of fun
at night when my work is done.

I just love to stay at home
in the evening
when the winter nights are cold,
I love to sit around the fire harmonizing
"Darling I Am Growing Old."
While mother darns my father's woollen hosiery,
he's telling yarns
of how he fought in sixtythree:
I don't envy the cocktail sippers
give me my carpet slippers,
for I love to stay at home.

I just love to stay at home
in the evening
when the winter nights are cold,
I love to sit around the fire harmonizing
"Darling I Am Growing Old."
While mother darns my father's woollen hosiery,
he's telling yarns
of how he fought in sixtythree:
I don't envy the cocktail sippers
give me my carpet slippers,
for I love to stay at home.

My cousin Mary,
she's a canary,
each night she sings the Rosary;
It sounds to me like Melba.
When Uncle Louie
who looks like Dewey,
recites "The Picture on The Wall."
It's simply Heaven, that's all.

I just love to stay at home
in the evening
when the winter nights are cold,
I love to sit around the fire harmonizing
"Darling I Am Growing Old."
While mother darns my father's woollen hosiery,
he's telling yarns
of how he fought in sixtythree:
I don't envy the cocktail sippers
give me my carpet slippers,
for I love to stay at home.

I just love to stay at home
in the evening
when the winter nights are cold,
I love to sit around the fire harmonizing
"Darling I Am Growing Old."
While mother darns my father's woollen hosiery,
he's telling yarns
of how he fought in sixtythree:
I don't envy the cocktail sippers
give me my carpet slippers,
for I love to stay at home.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
piano
piano
piano
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I Love To Stay At Home 1915
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© MCMXV by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 13 November 2006 at 9.59am
in association with Doug Grierson
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