What A Position For Me! 1919

James Pitt-Payne in London UK - 30 Dec 2003

I've worked in a whole lot of places
as maid, since I came from the west,
and I thought that my first one
was maybe my worst one,
although it turned out for the best.
The master was terribly flirty!
I couldn't see him, though, at all;
But the "missus" saw me,
when one fine evening he kissed me,
right in the dark little hall!

And what a position for me!
To stand there and know she had seen!
He said he'd been drinking,
and she said: "I'm thinking
you must have been!"
What did she mean?

But next day she said:
"Dearie, thank you!
He'll hang around home now!
You'll see!"
It worked out all right!
She slipped out ev'ry night
But what a position for me!
[spoken:] Oh.....!
But what a position for me!

My "missus" took me to the seashore
last summer, 'twas hot as could be!
And one day when I found
there was no one around,
I just went for a dip in the sea!
I hadn't a suit, but no matter,
I piled up my clothes on the beach;
But I most lost my mind,
when I came out to find
they'd been washed by the tide out of reach!

And what a position for me!
I didn't know where I was at!
I waited in vain till the tide rose again,
nothing floated in, though, but my hat!
After doing the "Chimneychihmmhmm
all day by the shivering sea,
I went home in a barrel,
my only apparell!
But what a position for me!
[spoken:] Oh....!
But what a position for me!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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What A Position For Me! 1919
Lyric by Henry Blossom
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMXIX by M. Witmark and Sons.
sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 30 December 2003 at 11.56
in association with Doug Grierson
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