I Took My Harp to a Party-Billy Cotton & His Orchestra

[ti:I Took My Harp To A Party] [ar:Billy Cotton] [al:Ultimate Big Bands-Billy Cotton & His Orchestra-Vol. 10] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Took My Harp to a Party - Billy Cotton & His Orchestra [00:09.87]Christmas is coming Christmas is coming [00:12.85]Christmas is coming again [00:15.71]But that never thrills me [00:17.22]The thought of it chills me [00:18.77]I tell you it fills me with pain [00:21.70]It makes me remember a Christmas gone by [00:24.59]When I was extremely upset [00:26.80] [00:27.75]A night in December an evening that I [00:30.70]Would very much rather forget [00:32.48] [00:33.73]For I took me harp to a party [00:35.90] [00:36.80]But nobody asked me to play [00:39.94]The others were jolly and earty [00:43.06]But I wasn't feeling so gay [00:46.04]They might have said play us a tune we can sing [00:49.20]But somehow I don't think they noticed the thing [00:52.44]I took me harp to a party [00:54.33] [00:55.17]But nobody asked me to play [00:57.81]So I took the darned thing away [01:01.53] [01:34.12]They asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ [01:37.35]And somebody else did a dance [01:40.33]They let Mrs Carter perform a sonata [01:42.97]But I wasn't given a chance [01:46.57]A north country person called Sandy McPherson [01:49.36]Played bagpipes and took off his coat [01:52.52]While both the Miss Fawcetts bust [01:54.32]Out of their corsets [01:55.41]In trying to take a top note [01:58.66]They sang home sweet home [02:00.32]And The Banks of loch lomond [02:01.85]And All the king's horses then trees [02:04.71]While nephews and nieces kept playing their pieces [02:07.57]And spreading their jam on the keys [02:10.93]A daughter called Lena played her concertina [02:13.62]We all played ridiculous games [02:16.55] [02:17.15]Til old Mr Dyer set his whiskers on fire [02:19.94]And a fire engine played on the flames