Gracie Field Whats The Good Of A Birthday (the Birthday Song) Lyrics

Whats The Good Of A Birthday (the Birthday Song) Lyrics

I've had a birthday come today, it's been a bit of a washout too

Though I
had presents from everyone of the useful kind

Without much fun and a bit
of a party do 

Birthdays are jolly my mummy said 

Ha-ha, mine's
finished up being sent to bed

What's the good of a birthday if you can't
have what you like

What's the good of a hankerchief to a fellow who wants
a bike



They gave me a brush to clean me teeth and a tube of paste
as well

And it wasn't the paste with the peppermint taste, it was a nasty
carbollicky smell

So I squeezed all the paste on the carpet for fun

And I stood on the toothbrush so that break was done

And I won't use
me hanky I'll just let it run

What's the good of a birthday



And the birthday party too it wasn't much good to me

I'd honey
sandwiches, then some ham, some trifle jelly with cream and jam

And seven
big cups of tea

And just then I noticed a big pork pie - I couldn't have
it - now I ask you why

What's the good of a birthday if you can't eat
till you're sick

What's the good of a piece of cake if a fella can't have
his pick



They told me I'd be a P.I.G. and that I'd best beware,
ha-ha

I said P.I.G.'s are happier than me, so why should I bloomin'well
care

Then I crept in the larder and guess what I got

A tin of
sardines and I et all the lot, he-he

Then I showed them if I could be
sick or not, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, hoo-hoo

It was awful - all over the place



When I'd been sick they said that's that and me birthday they said was
done

They washed me hands and washed me face, I was sent to bed

I
was in disgrace - just as if being sick was fun

They took all me clothes
from the bedroom 

'Cause then they