One Of The Little Orphans Of The Storm-Gracie Fields

[ti:One Of The Little Orphans Of The Storm] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Gracie Fields] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One Of The Little Orphans Of The Storm - Gracie Fields [00:10.70]I'm one of life's unwanted ones [00:13.28]A female Oliver Twist [00:15.50]They found me on a doorstep [00:17.53]On a damp November mist [00:20.16]They flung me out of the foundlings ome [00:23.11]Because I was good for nowt [00:25.12]Now I spend me days with the waifs an strays [00:29.02]A poor little down-an'-out [00:32.40]I ain't got no motherly and to guide me [00:37.55]And me father was sent to Dartmoor to reform [00:41.74] [00:42.27]If there'd been a vacant cell [00:44.59]They'd 'ave 'ad me in as well [00:47.77]I'm one of the little orphans of the storm [00:52.22] [00:52.93]I'm too proud to ever go in the workhouse [00:57.82]They'd never get me to wear the uniform; [01:02.44]An' I'd rather roam the street [01:05.00]Than be forced to wash me feet [01:07.85]I'm one of the little orphans of the storm [01:12.26] [01:13.23]I don't care if it blows [01:15.75]I don't care if it snows [01:18.26]I know of a shed [01:19.30]Where I get a good bed on the nod [01:21.57] [01:23.53]An' there I can enjoy [01:26.10]Me tuppenny saveloy [01:28.56]As snug as a bug in a rug or a pea in a pod [01:32.14] [01:33.45]I sing to the queues at the swell theaytres [01:38.77]With the kerbstone entertainers I perform [01:43.04] [01:43.80]I could sing like Jenny Lind [01:46.28]If it wasn't for me wind [01:49.32]I'm one of the little orphans of the storm [01:53.54] [01:54.94]It's 'ard for a girl to avoid temptation [02:00.06]I like to go underground to 'ave a warm; [02:03.95] [02:05.12]But many a night I've slipped [02:07.49]When I've crept into a crypt [02:10.27]I'm one of the little orphans of the storm [02:14.32] [02:15.74]I don't care if it blows [02:17.92]I don't care if it snows [02:19.97]I know of a shed [02:21.11]Where I get a good bed on the nod [02:23.06] [02:24.51]An' there I can enjoy [02:26.63]Me tuppenny saveloy [02:28.49]As snug as a bug in a rug or a pea in a pod [02:31.75] [02:33.47]I'll soon end it all with a dose of poison [02:38.97]Can anyone spare a glass of chloroform [02:43.40] [02:44.16]But if it's all the same to you [02:47.29]Well a drop of gin'll do [02:50.72] [02:51.24]I'm one of the little orphans of the storm