I Took My Harp To A Party-Ray Noble Orchestra/Ray Noble

[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 - Ray Noble Orchestra/Ray Noble [00:08.32]Christmas is coming Christmas is coming [00:10.01]Christmas is coming again [00:11.88] [00:13.26]But that never thrills me [00:16.01]The thought of it chills me [00:17.76]I tell you it fills me with pain [00:19.69] [00:20.76]It makes me remember a Christmas gone by [00:23.70]When I was extremely upset [00:25.32] [00:27.07]A night in December an evening that I [00:29.94] [00:30.63]Would very much rather forget [00:33.44] [00:34.76]For I took me harp to a party [00:38.44]But nobody asked me to play [00:41.01] [00:42.13]The others were jolly and earty [00:44.45] [00:45.94]But I wasn't feeling so gay [00:47.94] [00:50.07]They might have said play us a tune we can sing [00:55.44]But somehow I don't think they noticed the thing [00:57.76]I took me harp to a party [01:00.44]But nobody asked me to play [01:02.94] [01:04.57]So I took the darned thing away [01:07.19] [01:09.13]They asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ [01:13.93] [01:14.81]And somebody else did a dance [01:17.45]They let Mrs Carter perform a sonata [01:20.45] [01:21.32]But I wasn't given a chance [01:23.13] [01:24.26]A north country person called Sandy McPherson [01:27.07] [01:28.26]Played bagpipes and took off his coat [01:30.95] [01:31.82]While both the Miss Fawcetts bust [01:35.20]Out of their corsets [01:36.70]In trying to take a top note [01:38.82] [01:40.51]But I took me harp to a party [01:43.76] [01:45.31]Nobody asked me to play [01:47.06] [01:48.31]The others were jolly and earty [01:50.63] [01:52.20]But I wasn't feeling so gay [01:54.63] [01:56.57]I felt so ashamed at not striking a note [01:59.88] [02:00.51]That I tried to hide the thing under me coat [02:04.13]I took me harp to a party [02:08.07]But nobody asked me to play [02:09.82] [02:11.76]So I took the darned thing away [02:14.13] [02:16.51]They sang home sweet home [02:18.95] [02:21.13]And The Banks of loch lomond [02:24.45]And All the king's horses then trees [02:25.57]While nephews and nieces kept playing their pieces [02:28.01] [02:28.57]And spreading their jam on the keys [02:31.25] [02:32.06]A daughter called Lena played her concertina [02:34.94] [02:36.00]We all played ridiculous games [02:39.31] [02:40.19]Til old Mr Dyer set his whiskers on fire [02:43.69]And a fire engine played on the flames [02:46.31] [02:47.87]But I took me harp to a party [02:50.75] [02:51.75]But nobody asked me to play [02:54.31] [02:55.06]So I took the darned thing away