Gracie Field I Took My Harp To A Party Lyrics

I Took My Harp To A Party Lyrics

Christmas is comin', Christmas is comin'

Christmas is comin' again

But that never thrills me, the thought of it chills me

I tell you it
fills me with pain

It makes me remember a Christmas gone by 

When I
was extremely upset

A night in December, an evening that I 

Would
very much rather forget



For I took me harp to a party but nobody
asked me to play

The others were jolly and 'earty but I wasn't feelin' so
gay

They might have said play us a tune we can sing

But somehow I
don't think they noticed the thing

I took me harp to a party but nobody
asked me to play

So I took the darned thing away



They asked
Mrs Morgan to play her mouth-organ

And somebody else did a dance

They Let Mrs Carter perform a sonata

But I wasn't given a chance

A north country person called Sandy McPherson

Played bagpipes and took
off his coat

While both the Miss Fawcetts bust out of their corsets

In trying to take a top note



But I took me harp to a party,
nobody asked me to play

The others were jolly and 'earty but I wasn't
feelin' so gay

I felt so ashamed at not strikin' a note

That I
tried to hide the thing under me coat

I took me harp to a party but
nobody asked me to play

So I took the darned thing away



They
sang Home Sweet Home and The Banks of Loch Lomond

And All the King's
Horses, then Trees

While nephews and nieces kept playin' their pieces

And spreadin' their jam on the keys

A daughter called Lena, played her
concertina

We all played ridiculous games

'Til old Mr Dyer, set his
whiskers on fire

And a fire engine played on the flames



But
I took me harp to a party but nobody asked me to play

So I took the
darned thing away!-acap