I Took My Harp To A Party-Billy Cotton

[ti:I Took My Harp To A Party] [ar:Billy Cotton] [al:Ultimate Big Bands-Billy Cotton & His Orchestra-Vol. 10] [offset:0] [00:01.79]I Took My Harp To A Party - Billy Cotton [00:09.86]Christmas is coming Christmas is coming [00:12.84]Christmas is coming again [00:15.70]But that never thrills me [00:17.21]The thought of it chills me [00:18.76]I tell you it fills me with pain [00:21.69]It makes me remember a Christmas gone by [00:24.58]When I was extremely upset [00:26.79] [00:27.74]A night in December an evening that I [00:30.69]Would very much rather forget [00:32.47] [00:33.72]For I took me harp to a party [00:35.88] [00:36.78]But nobody asked me to play [00:39.92]The others were jolly and earty [00:43.04]But I wasn't feeling so gay [00:46.02]They might have said play us a tune we can sing [00:49.18]But somehow I don't think they noticed the thing [00:52.42]I took me harp to a party [00:54.31] [00:55.15]But nobody asked me to play [00:57.79]So I took the darned thing away [01:01.51] [01:34.10]They asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ [01:37.33]And somebody else did a dance [01:40.31]They let Mrs Carter perform a sonata [01:42.95]But I wasn't given a chance [01:46.55]A north country person called Sandy McPherson [01:49.34]Played bagpipes and took off his coat [01:52.50]While both the Miss Fawcetts bust [01:54.30]Out of their corsets [01:55.39]In trying to take a top note [01:58.64]They sang home sweet home [02:00.30]And The Banks of loch lomond [02:01.83]And All the king's horses then trees [02:04.69]While nephews and nieces kept playing their pieces [02:07.55]And spreading their jam on the keys [02:10.91]A daughter called Lena played her concertina [02:13.60]We all played ridiculous games [02:16.53] [02:17.13]Til old Mr Dyer set his whiskers on fire [02:19.92]And a fire engine played on the flames [02:22.77]