Please Sell No More Drink To My Father-Elsa Lanchester

[ti:Please Sell No More Drink To My Father] [ar:Elsa Lanchester, aka The Bride Of Frankenstein] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Please Sell No More Drink To My Father - Elsa Lanchester (The Bride Of Frankenstein) [00:11.72]Please Sir will you listen a moment [00:15.70] [00:16.43]I've something important to say [00:20.20] [00:20.83]My Mother has sent you a message [00:24.45] [00:25.21]Receive it in kindness I pray [00:29.53] [00:30.44]'Tis of Father poor Father I'm speaking [00:34.92] [00:35.50]You know him he's called Ragged Gore [00:40.68] [00:41.18]But we love him and hope we may save him [00:46.04]If you'll promise to sell him no more [00:52.66]Please sell no more drink to my father [00:58.04]It makes him so strange and so wild [01:02.71]Heed the prayer of my heart-broken mother [01:08.56] [01:09.08]And pity the poor drunkard's child [01:15.54] [01:16.86]My father came home yester even [01:21.67]Reeled home thro' the mud and the rain [01:25.89] [01:26.54]He upset the lamp on the table [01:30.47] [01:31.01]And struck my sick mother again [01:35.47] [01:36.32]Then all through the hours till the morning [01:40.76] [01:41.29]He lay on the cold kitchen floor [01:46.02] [01:46.54]And this morning he's sick and he's sorry [01:52.52] [01:53.11]Oh promise to sell him no more [01:58.52] [01:59.56]Please sell no more drink to my father [02:04.86]It makes him so strange and so wild [02:09.45]Heed the prayer of my heart broken mother [02:15.05] [02:15.60]And pity the poor drunkard's child [02:21.61] [02:22.17]When sober he loves us so dearly [02:26.75]No father is kinder than he [02:31.27]He wishes so much to stop drinking [02:36.09]But this is the trouble you see [02:40.24] [02:41.06]He cannot resist the temptation [02:45.82]He feels when he passes your door [02:50.62]As he goes to his work in the morning [02:55.71]Please promise to sell him no more [03:02.16] [03:02.93]Please sell no more drink to my father [03:07.64] [03:08.20]It makes him so strange and so wild [03:12.20] [03:12.75]Heed the prayer of my heart broken mother [03:20.71] [03:21.75]And pity the poor drunkard's child