She Fought Like A Tiger For 'er 'onour-Gracie Fields

[ti:She Fought Like A Tiger For 'er 'onour] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Gracie Fields] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]She Fought Like A Tiger For 'er 'onour - Gracie Fields [00:10.81]My auntie Flo is sixty or so [00:14.08]She always says she's old-fashioned and slow [00:17.09]She's never been married [00:18.29]You'll hear her exclaim [00:20.00]But she's covered some grass [00:21.50]In her time all the same [00:23.26]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [00:26.88] [00:27.42]With funny old-fashioned ideas [00:30.77]Men of today are unmanly she'll say [00:33.77]And they don't seem to love in the old-fashioned way [00:37.37]She says she has dreams of a lover sublime [00:40.79]He comes in her sleep like a nursery rhyme [00:43.97]So she stays in her bed for three weeks at a time [00:47.42]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [00:51.56]Cocktails and spirits she never permits [00:54.65]But last Christmas party she had us in fits [00:58.14]She drank two small ports and then did the split [01:01.35]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [01:04.75] [01:05.43]Auntie will say: girls of today [01:08.23]Speak in the naughtiest blush-making way [01:11.04]But tell her a story you think is new [01:14.01]And she'll say "I heard that one before I was two " [01:17.63]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [01:21.36]With funny old-fashioned ideas [01:24.26] [01:25.24]Children today are all spoiled she will say [01:28.39]How different from good Queen Victoria's day [01:31.63] [01:32.18]Singing she says is an art that is dead [01:35.16]And crooners well they simply make her see red [01:38.79]But she's twenty-seven portraits of Bing round her bed [01:41.91]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [01:45.54]She's one of those old-fashioned ladies [01:49.05]With funny old-fashioned ideas [01:52.07] [01:52.74]Girls say such things you will hear Auntie tell [01:55.74]And this slang from America's really well well [01:59.70]"Gosh" and "oh gee" sound so common she'll say [02:03.02]The worst of the lot is that dreadful "OK " [02:06.64]But I heard her call someone a "twerp" yesterday [02:09.88]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [02:12.85] [02:13.42]She says that the talkies with sickness weak [02:16.53]Not fit for a lady to see or to speak [02:20.13]And she ought to know she goes five times a week [02:23.13]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies [02:26.43] [02:26.94]She's one of those old-fashioned ladies [02:30.23]With funny old-fashioned ideas [02:32.96] [02:34.07]Husbands today are so rare she will say [02:36.91]So she just jogs along in her spinsterly way [02:40.43]It seems such a pity she never was wed [02:43.63]But she has a cat and a parrot instead [02:47.07]And a hot-water bottle she always calls "Fred" [02:52.78]'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies