The Photograph of Mother's Wedding Group-Gracie Fields

[ti: The Photograph of Mother's Wedding Group ] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Say It Isn't So] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Photograph of Mother's Wedding Group - Gracie Fields [00:14.39]Now on me mother's weddin' day of course I wasn't present [00:18.92]But I've 'eard the way they carried out was daft [00:22.42]Me aunt who thought she looked like Cleopatra only better [00:26.14]Said "The wedding group we must 'ave photographed " [00:29.42]Some people take it for a picture of the death of God [00:32.38]An' there a storm at sea both natural mistakes [00:36.22]It's 'angin' in our parlour just be'ind the parrot's cage [00:38.96]An' you should 'ear the rude remarks that parrot makes [00:41.60] [00:43.17]On the photograph of mother's wedding group [00:47.60]There must 'ave been a disappointed troop [00:51.64]You can just see father's top 'at an' that bit's come out a treat [00:56.15]But both the best man an' the bride 'ave disappeared complete [00:58.98] [01:00.49]'Cause the rest is just a close-up of me Uncle Willie's feet [01:05.08]On the photograph of mother's wedding group [01:10.71]A dog's got in the picture; some 'ave mixed it up with father [01:14.49]But the one in the cleanest collar is the pup [01:17.47]A friend said we should 'ang the picture upside down an' try it [01:23.22]But we can't not knowing which is right side up [01:27.94]We 'ad it in a frame at first but it looked so untidy [01:31.25]We decided that we'd take it out again [01:33.95]'Cause Aunt Maggie's in it an' the poor old girl is so bow-legged [01:36.82] [01:37.50]That 'er knees were stickin' right outside the crib [01:41.43]Oh the photograph of mother's wedding group [01:46.46]It was 'andy once when I fell in the soup; [01:50.78]For a fire broke out as ready to jump in the bath I stood [01:54.17] [01:55.16]A fireman rushed me through the hall 'E cried "Delay's no good " [01:59.44]I'd no time to grab a coat but I did all a woman could [02:04.41]With the photograph of mother's wedding group [02:10.27]No matter where we've 'ung that photograph it's been unlucky [02:13.64]Something's nearly always 'appened this or that [02:16.55]Last week when it fell off the wall I said "That's somebody's death warnin' " [02:21.01]An' it was; it went an' fell right on the cat [02:24.38]I tried to palm it off on other members of the fam'ly [02:28.10]On 'is birthday I sent it to me Uncle Jack [02:30.96]I thought I'd done the trick till I'd a letter from 'im sayin' [02:33.89]That 'is 'eart was weak an' so we'd take it back [02:37.88]On the photograph of mother's wedding group [02:43.55]Is the straight-backed girl whom time 'as now made stooped [02:49.99]Oft I gaze at it with tear-dimmed eyes as shadows come and go [02:57.46]An' wonder in the silence of the firelight's amber glow [03:04.21]Once I wondered where the flies all went in winter; now I know: [03:11.22]On the photograph of mother's wedding group