Keep Cool The Country's Saving Fuel 1918

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 2 Aug 2009
2009

A married man was Pat McCann
who loved to stay out late,
and with a stout good "bawlin' out"
for him his wife would wait.
No more would she accept his plea
of being at the "lodge"
and so last night he came home tight
and pulled this camouflage.

Dear, keep cool,
the country's saving fuel,
and I had to come home in the dark,
Wife of mine,
I started home at nine
but the streets were all so foggy
I walked 'round till I got groggy,
in the gloaming, I was roaming,
all the lights were out
what could I do....
I knew that you would sit up
so darlin' I got lit up,
to find my way back home to you...

Dear, keep cool,
the country's saving fuel,
and I had to come home in the dark,
I was blind,
my way I couldn't find
I can swear by ten religions
all I did was look for pigeons,
you know why, dear,
home they fly, dear,
in the dark a pigeon's aim is true,
so when it got too hazy
I grabbed a squab named Daisy
to find my way back home to you.

The only lights these lightless nights
that I have ever seen,
are on a sign marked "Precinct Nine"
and both of them are green.
I know that you are mad clean through,
but be a Patriot,
when tempers rise, economize
and never get too hot.

Dear, keep cool,
the country's saving fuel,
and I had to come home in the dark,
Wife of mine,
I started home at nine
but the streets were all so foggy
I walked 'round till I got groggy,
in the gloaming, I was roaming,
all the lights were out
what could I do....
I knew that you would sit up
so darlin' I got lit up,
to find my way back home to you...

Dear, keep cool,
the country's saving fuel,
and I had to come home in the dark,
I was blind,
my way I couldn't find
I can swear by ten religions
all I did was look for pigeons,
you know why, dear,
home they fly, dear,
in the dark a pigeon's aim is true,
so when it got too hazy
I grabbed a squab named Daisy
to find my way back home to you.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Keep Cool The Country's Saving Fuel 1918
words & music by Chas.R.McCarron
© MCMXVIII by Chas.R.McCarron
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 2 August 2009 at 09.03
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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