We've Got To Keep Up With The Joneses-Gracie Fields

[ti:We've Got to Keep Up With The Joneses ] [ar:Gracie Fields] [al:Come Back to Sorrento] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]We've Got To Keep Up With The Joneses - Gracie Fields [00:11.62]There's a family called Joneses come lived next to us [00:15.04]And they're causing our family no end of a fuss [00:18.54]They're very posh people you know by their clothes [00:21.49] [00:22.27]He wears plus fours and she talks down 'er nose [00:25.71]We used to be 'appy 'til they came our way [00:29.13]Now everything's altered I'm sorry to say [00:32.54]Cos we've got to keep up with the Joneses [00:36.43]We do just whatever they do [00:39.48]They're so very cork tipped that Mother got pipped [00:43.70]And said we would show them oo's oo [00:47.12]When dinner is ready Ma bangs on a gong [00:50.92]She puts in 'er aitches and gets them all wrong [00:54.73]And Dad says 'e might 'ave a bath before long [00:58.05]Cos we've got to keep up with the Joneses [01:01.29]We've got to keep up with the Joneses [01:05.03]Last Monday was their washing day [01:08.51]And when Mother saw what Mrs Jones wore [01:12.49]Well she bought a pair right away [01:15.75]Dad said "Aren't you cold in them thin celonese " [01:19.81]Said Mother "I was 'til I hit on this wheeze [01:23.06]I'm wearing me fleecy ones underneath these " [01:26.51]Cos we've got to keep up with the Joneses [01:30.29]Dad goes off to work in a collar so neat [01:33.76]But 'e snatches it off when 'e gets down the street [01:37.39]Jones kisses 'is wife when 'e goes off to biz [01:40.89]So dad said "I'm 'aving a basin of this " [01:44.52]And just to make sure 'e's doing things swell [01:48.15]E kisses the dog and the tom cat as well [01:51.85]Cos we've got to keep up with the Joneses [01:55.44]They really are terribly swell [01:59.02]It gave us a jar when Jones bought a new car [02:02.62]So we 'ad to 'ave one as well [02:06.04]One Saturday evening Dad brought it across [02:09.86]But we lost it the following morning because [02:13.71]The fella who owned it found out where it was [02:17.21]But we've got to keep up with the Joneses [02:20.74]We've got to keep up with the Joneses [02:24.28]Our manners improve every day [02:27.66]Even Grandma says "Pardon " and runs down the garden [02:31.68]When her food has gone down the wrong way [02:35.67]Our Gert gave our Bert such a sloshin' one night [02:38.75]She said "Stop that scratchin' it isn't polite [02:42.27]When there's company present you just let 'em bite [02:45.96]Cos we've got to keep up with the Joneses "