The Biggest Aspidistra in the World-Gracie Fields/Unknown/D.R

[ti:The Biggest Aspidistra in the World] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:The Very Best of Gracie Fields] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Biggest Aspidistra in the World - Gracie Fields/Unknown/D.R [00:07.43]For years we had an aspidistra in a flower pot [00:10.91] [00:11.50]On the whatnot near the stand in the all [00:15.07] [00:16.03]It didn't seem to grow til one day our brother Joe [00:20.40]Had a notion that he'd make it strong and tall [00:23.92] [00:24.98]So he's crossed it with an acorn from an oak tree [00:28.99] [00:30.17]And he's planted it against the garden wall [00:34.80] [00:35.61]It shot up like a rocket [00:38.12]Til it's nearly reached the sky [00:40.53]It's the biggest aspidistra in the world [00:44.97] [00:46.14]We couldn't see the top of it [00:48.15]It got so blooming high [00:49.85] [00:50.36]It's the biggest aspidistra in the world [00:54.70] [00:55.90]When father's had a snoot full at his pub [00:59.19]The Bunch of Grapes [01:00.41] [01:00.94]He doesn't go all fighting mad and getting into scrapes [01:04.57] [01:05.19]No you'll find him in his bear-skin [01:08.39]Playing Tarzan of the apes [01:10.88]Off the biggest aspidistra in the world [01:15.03] [01:17.33]We have to get it watered by the local fire brigade [01:21.64]So they put the water rates up half a crown [01:25.13] [01:26.10]The roots stuff up the drains [01:28.60]Grow along the country lanes [01:30.91]And they came up half a mile outside the town [01:34.18] [01:35.30]Once we hired an auditorium for a hot house [01:39.13] [01:40.15]But a jealous rival went and burnt it down [01:45.12] [01:46.30]The tom cats and their sweethearts love [01:49.18]To spend their evenings out [01:51.45]Up the biggest aspidistra in the world [01:55.80] [01:56.87]They all begin meowing when the buds begin to sprout [02:01.45]From the biggest aspidistra in the world [02:05.73] [02:06.98]The dogs all come around for miles [02:09.59]A lovely sight to see [02:11.68]They sniff around for hours and hours [02:14.23]And wag their tails with glee [02:16.62] [02:17.28]So I've had to put a notice up to say it's not a tree [02:21.79]It's the biggest aspidistra in the world