《The Photograph of Mother’s Wedding Group》歌词

[00:00:00] The Photograph of Mother's Wedding Group - Gracie Fields

[00:00:14] Now on me mother's weddin' day of course I wasn't present

[00:00:18] But I've 'eard the way they carried out was daft

[00:00:22] Me aunt who thought she looked like Cleopatra only better

[00:00:26] Said "The wedding group we must 'ave photographed "

[00:00:29] Some people take it for a picture of the death of God

[00:00:32] An' there a storm at sea both natural mistakes

[00:00:36] It's 'angin' in our parlour just be'ind the parrot's cage

[00:00:38] An' you should 'ear the rude remarks that parrot makes

[00:00:43] On the photograph of mother's wedding group

[00:00:47] There must 'ave been a disappointed troop

[00:00:51] You can just see father's top 'at an' that bit's come out a treat

[00:00:56] But both the best man an' the bride 'ave disappeared complete

[00:01:00] 'Cause the rest is just a close-up of me Uncle Willie's feet

[00:01:05] On the photograph of mother's wedding group

[00:01:10] A dog's got in the picture; some 'ave mixed it up with father

[00:01:14] But the one in the cleanest collar is the pup

[00:01:17] A friend said we should 'ang the picture upside down an' try it

[00:01:23] But we can't not knowing which is right side up

[00:01:27] We 'ad it in a frame at first but it looked so untidy

[00:01:31] We decided that we'd take it out again

[00:01:33] 'Cause Aunt Maggie's in it an' the poor old girl is so bow-legged

[00:01:37] That 'er knees were stickin' right outside the crib

[00:01:41] Oh the photograph of mother's wedding group

[00:01:46] It was 'andy once when I fell in the soup;

[00:01:50] For a fire broke out as ready to jump in the bath I stood

[00:01:55] A fireman rushed me through the hall 'E cried "Delay's no good "

[00:01:59] I'd no time to grab a coat but I did all a woman could

[00:02:04] With the photograph of mother's wedding group

[00:02:10] No matter where we've 'ung that photograph it's been unlucky

[00:02:13] Something's nearly always 'appened this or that

[00:02:16] Last week when it fell off the wall I said "That's somebody's death warnin' "

[00:02:21] An' it was; it went an' fell right on the cat

[00:02:24] I tried to palm it off on other members of the fam'ly

[00:02:28] On 'is birthday I sent it to me Uncle Jack

[00:02:30] I thought I'd done the trick till I'd a letter from 'im sayin'

[00:02:33] That 'is 'eart was weak an' so we'd take it back

[00:02:37] On the photograph of mother's wedding group

[00:02:43] Is the straight-backed girl whom time 'as now made stooped

[00:02:49] Oft I gaze at it with tear-dimmed eyes as shadows come and go

[00:02:57] An' wonder in the silence of the firelight's amber glow

[00:03:04] Once I wondered where the flies all went in winter; now I know:

[00:03:11] On the photograph of mother's wedding group