The Gas Man Cometh-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Gas Man Cometh] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:The Complete Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.51]The Gas Man Cometh - Flanders & Swann [00:01.83]Written by：Donald Swann/Michael Flanders [00:03.10] [03:33.64]'Twas on a Monday morning [03:35.48]The gas man came to call [03:37.23] [03:37.82]The gas tap wouldn't turn I wasn't getting gas at all [03:41.31] [03:41.90]He tore out all the skirting boards [03:43.90]To try and find the main [03:45.94]And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again [03:49.20] [03:49.86]Oh it all makes work for the working man to do [03:53.02] [03:56.56]'Twas on a Tuesday morning [03:57.95]The carpenter came round [03:59.16] [03:59.79]He hammered and he chiselled and he said 'look what I've found [04:03.17]Your joists are full of dry rot [04:05.05]But I'll put it all to rights' [04:06.79]Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights [04:10.22] [04:11.26]Oh it all makes work for the working man to do [04:13.40] [04:16.62]'Twas on a Wednesday morning [04:18.28]The electrician came [04:19.18] [04:19.99]He called me 'Mr Sanderson' which isn't quite my name [04:23.00] [04:23.64]He couldn't reach the fuse box [04:25.32]Without standing on the bin [04:26.62] [04:27.16]And his foot went through a window so I called a glazier in [04:30.88]Oh it all makes work for the working man to do [04:33.92] [04:36.96]Twas on a Thursday morning [04:38.85]The glazier came along [04:39.94] [04:40.53]With his blow torch and his putty and his merry glazier's song [04:44.90] [04:45.47]He put another pane in [04:47.05]It took no time at all [04:48.31] [04:48.87]But I had to get a painter in to come and paint the wall [04:52.25]Oh it all makes work for the working man to do [04:55.09] [04:58.30]'Twas on a Friday morning [04:59.86]The painter made a start [05:01.03] [05:01.63]With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part [05:04.42] [05:05.12]Every nook and every cranny [05:06.72] [05:07.35]But I found when he was gone [05:09.02] [05:09.65]He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on [05:12.88] [05:13.78]Oh it all makes work for the working man to do [05:15.96] [05:16.98]On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all [05:20.37] [05:21.46]So 'twas on a Monday morning that the gas man came to call