Gracie Fields - I Took My Harp To A Party Lyrics
Christmas is comin', Christmas is comin'Christmas is comin' againBut that never thrills me, the thought of it chills meI tell you it fills me with painIt makes me remember a Christmas gone byWhen I was extremely upsetA night in December, an evening that IWould very much rather forgetFor I took me harp to a party but nobody asked me to playThe others were jolly and 'earty but I wasn't feelin' so gayThey might have said play us a tune we can singBut somehow I don't think they noticed the thingI took me harp to a party but nobody asked me to playSo I took the darned thing awayThey asked Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organAnd somebody else did a danceThey Let Mrs Carter perform a sonataBut I wasn't given a chanceA north country person called Sandy McPhersonPlayed bagpipes and took off his coatWhile both the Miss Fawcetts bust out of their corsetsIn trying to take a top noteBut I took me harp to a party, nobody asked me to playThe others were jolly and 'earty but I wasn't feelin' so gayI felt so ashamed at not strikin' a noteThat I tried to hide the thing under me coatI took me harp to a party but nobody asked me to playSo I took the darned thing awayThey sang Home Sweet Home and The Banks of Loch LomondAnd All the King's Horses, then TreesWhile nephews and nieces kept playin' their piecesAnd spreadin' their jam on the keysA daughter called Lena, played her concertinaWe all played ridiculous games'Til old Mr Dyer, set his whiskers on fireAnd a fire engine played on the flamesBut I took me harp to a party but nobody asked me to playSo I took the darned thing away!-acap
