I Took My Harp to a Party-Gracie Fields

[ti:I Took My Harp To A Party] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Heart and Soul] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Took My Harp to a Party - Gracie Fields [00:04.96]Christmas is coming Christmas is coming [00:08.31]Christmas is coming again [00:10.83] [00:11.84]But that never thrills me [00:13.54]The thought of it chills me [00:15.59]I tell you it fills me with pain [00:17.77] [00:19.08]It makes me remember a Christmas gone by [00:22.89]When I was extremely upset [00:25.01] [00:26.46]A night in December an evening that I [00:29.98]Would very much rather forget [00:32.37] [00:34.15]For I took me harp to a party [00:36.63] [00:38.21]But nobody asked me to play [00:40.45] [00:41.71]The others were jolly and earty [00:43.92] [00:45.49]But I wasn't feeling so gay [00:47.84] [00:49.18]They might have said play us a tune we can sing [00:52.58]But somehow I don't think they noticed the thing [00:55.78] [00:56.79]I took me harp to a party [00:58.98] [01:00.27]But nobody asked me to play [01:02.61] [01:04.33]So I took the darned thing away [01:07.08] [01:09.20]They asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ [01:13.06]And somebody else did a dance [01:15.51] [01:17.02]They let Mrs Carter perform a sonata [01:20.25] [01:21.52]But I wasn't given a chance [01:23.01] [01:24.57]A north country person called Sandy McPherson [01:28.21]Played bagpipes and took off his coat [01:30.89] [01:32.23]While both the Miss Fawcetts bust [01:34.88]Out of their corsets [01:35.98] [01:36.56]In trying to take a top note [01:39.07] [01:41.15]But I took me harp to a party [01:43.67] [01:45.53]Nobody asked me to play [01:47.78] [01:49.29]The others were jolly and earty [01:51.59] [01:53.17]But I wasn't feeling so gay [01:55.81] [01:57.02]I felt so ashamed at not striking a note [02:00.21] [02:00.97]That I tried to hide the thing under me coat [02:03.79] [02:04.97]I took me harp to a party [02:07.15] [02:08.77]But nobody asked me to play [02:11.43] [02:12.23]So I took the darned thing away [02:15.80] [02:17.72]They sang home sweet home [02:19.75]And The Banks of loch lomond [02:21.24] [02:21.75]And All the king's horses then trees [02:24.28] [02:25.48]While nephews and nieces kept playing their pieces [02:29.07] [02:29.72]And spreading their jam on the keys [02:31.95] [02:33.55]A daughter called Lena played her concertina [02:36.38] [02:36.88]We all played ridiculous games [02:39.81] [02:41.32]Til old Mr Dyer set his whiskers on fire [02:45.02]And a fire engine played on the flames [02:47.87] [02:49.40]But I took me harp to a party [02:52.07] [02:53.71]But nobody asked me to play [02:56.01] [02:56.83]So I took the darned thing away