When Father Papered The Parlour 1910 Billy Williams

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23Jan2025
2025

Our parlour wanted papering
and Pa said it was waste
to call a paper hanger in
and so he made some paste.
He bought some rolls of paper,
got a ladder and a brush,
and with my mummy's night gown on
at it he made a rush.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

The pattern was "blue roses"
with its leaves red white and brown,
He's stuck it wrong way up,
and now we all walk upside down,
and when he trimmed the edging off
the paper with the shears,
the cut got underneath it
and dad cut off both his ears.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

Soon dad fell down the stairs
and dropped his paper hanger's can
on little Henrietta sitting
there with her young man.
The paste stuck them together,
as we thought 'twould be for life,
we had to fetch the parson in
to make them man and wife.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

We're never going to move away
from that house any more.
for Father's gone and stuck
the chairs and tables to the floor.
We can't find our piano though
it's broad and rather tall,
we think that it's behind the paper
Pa stuck on the wall.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

When father papered the parlour
you couldn't see him for paste!
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there
paste and paper ev'rywhere.
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
the children stuck to the floor,
I never knew a blooming family
so "stuck up" before.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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When Father Papered The Parlour 1910 Billy Williams
by Weston & Barnes
© MCMX by Francis, Day & Hunter
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 23 January 2025 at 11.30
in association with Torquil Syme
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James Pitt-Payne