I Took My Harp To A Party-Gracie Fields

[ti:I Took My Harp To A Party] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Northern Sweetheart] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Took My Harp To A Party - Gracie Fields [00:07.77]Christmas is coming Christmas is coming [00:09.46]Christmas is coming again [00:11.33] [00:12.71]But that never thrills me [00:15.46]The thought of it chills me [00:17.21]I tell you it fills me with pain [00:19.14] [00:20.21]It makes me remember a Christmas gone by [00:23.15]When I was extremely upset [00:24.77] [00:26.52]A night in December an evening that I [00:29.39] [00:30.08]Would very much rather forget [00:32.89] [00:34.21]For I took me harp to a party [00:37.89]But nobody asked me to play [00:40.46] [00:41.58]The others were jolly and earty [00:43.90] [00:45.39]But I wasn't feeling so gay [00:47.39] [00:49.52]They might have said play us a tune we can sing [00:54.89]But somehow I don't think they noticed the thing [00:57.21]I took me harp to a party [00:59.89]But nobody asked me to play [01:02.39] [01:04.02]So I took the darned thing away [01:06.64] [01:08.58]They asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ [01:13.38] [01:14.26]And somebody else did a dance [01:16.90]They let Mrs Carter perform a sonata [01:19.90] [01:20.77]But I wasn't given a chance [01:22.58] [01:23.71]A north country person called Sandy McPherson [01:26.52] [01:27.71]Played bagpipes and took off his coat [01:30.40] [01:31.27]While both the Miss Fawcetts bust [01:34.65]Out of their corsets [01:36.15]In trying to take a top note [01:38.27] [01:39.96]But I took me harp to a party [01:43.21] [01:44.76]Nobody asked me to play [01:46.51] [01:47.76]The others were jolly and earty [01:50.08] [01:51.65]But I wasn't feeling so gay [01:54.08] [01:56.02]I felt so ashamed at not striking a note [01:59.33] [01:59.96]That I tried to hide the thing under me coat [02:03.58]I took me harp to a party [02:07.52]But nobody asked me to play [02:09.27] [02:11.21]So I took the darned thing away [02:13.58] [02:15.96]They sang home sweet home [02:18.40] [02:20.58]And The Banks of loch lomond [02:23.90]And All the king's horses then trees [02:25.02]While nephews and nieces kept playing their pieces [02:27.46] [02:28.02]And spreading their jam on the keys [02:30.70] [02:31.51]A daughter called Lena played her concertina [02:34.39] [02:35.45]We all played ridiculous games [02:38.76] [02:39.64]Til old Mr Dyer set his whiskers on fire [02:43.14]And a fire engine played on the flames [02:45.76] [02:47.32]But I took me harp to a party [02:50.20] [02:51.20]But nobody asked me to play [02:53.76] [02:54.51]So I took the darned thing away