Tell Your Father, Tell Your Mother.

Seq- Dr.J.Pitt-Payne. Kar- Bunty Pritchard Jones.July 2000

Said Bertie to his girl last night,
'Your people don't like me.

They'd raise their hats and kiss me
if they knew my pedigree.

My Pa was a railway porter,
he fought at Waterloo,

My Mother was a fisherman's daughter,
That is why I'm fishing for you.'

I've been a baker, an undertaker,
And a cocktail shaker in Peru.

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

I've been a waiter,
and I used to cater for an alligator at the Zoo,

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

I've been a M.A. and a B.A.
They say I'm M.U.G.

I can trace my pedigree
to nineteen thirty three.

As the cook house slavey,
in the old Swiss Navy
I have served the gravy to the crew,

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

Said Bertie
'All my family have laboured very hard,

You'll find their photo's
all around the walls of Scotland Yard;

The job I've got now is tidy,
I work for Jones and sons,

I only go on Good Friday,
Putting crosses on Hot Cross Buns.'

I've been a door~man
and I've been a Mormon,
And a very warm 'un if you knew,

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

I've been a ringer,
and a Highland flinger,
and a tenor singer with the flu,

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

I've been a horse thief
and a fish thief,
Why, once I pinched a whale,

Half my life I've been on bail,
the other half in jail.

Oh! I've fixed a girder,
been a dud sheep herder,
and I've done a murder, one or two,

Tell Your Father,
Tell your Mother that I'm good enough for you.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
synth strings
synth brass
Lyric-tune
Tell Your Father, Tell Your Mother
1933
Written and composed
by
Leo Towers
Harry Leon
&
Horatio Nicholls
MIDI
Research by
Doug Grierson
Sequence by
Dr. James Pitt-Payne in London UK
Karaoke by
Bunty Pritchard Jones
Tell Your Father, Tell Your Mother 1933 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 4Jul 2000

Tell Your Father, Tell Your Mother (That I'm not good enough for you)