所属专辑:Parlophone Comedy Classics
歌手: Stanley Holloway
时长: 03:49
Jubilee Sovereign - Stanley Holloway[00:00:00]
Written by:Marriott Edgar[00:00:00]
On jubilee day the ramsbottoms[00:00:07]
Asked all their relations to tea[00:00:10]
Including young Albert's grandmother[00:00:12]
An awkward old party were she[00:00:15]
She'd seen queen Victoria's jub lee[00:00:19]
And her wedding to Albert the good[00:00:22]
But got quite upset when young Albert[00:00:25]
Asked how she'd got on in the flood[00:00:28]
She cast quite a damper on party[00:00:31]
But cheered up a bit after tea[00:00:34]
And gave Albert a real golden sovrin[00:00:37]
She'd saved since the last jubilee[00:00:40]
It had picture of queen on the one side[00:00:43]
And a dragon fight on the reverse[00:00:47]
And tasted of camphor and cobwebs[00:00:50]
Through being so long in her purse[00:00:53]
Albert cuddled the coin and he kissed it[00:00:56]
And felt the rough edge with his tongue[00:01:01]
For he knew by the look of his father[00:01:04]
It wouldn't be his very longer[00:01:07]
Shall I get your money box abler[00:01:10]
Said mother so coaxing and sweet[00:01:13]
But Albert let drop an expression[00:01:16]
He must have picked up in the street[00:01:19]
I'll show you a trick with that sovrin[00:01:22]
Said pa who were hovering near[00:01:25]
Then he took and pretended to eat it[00:01:28]
Then brought it back out of his ear[00:01:31]
This magic filled Albert with wonder[00:01:34]
And before you could say uncle dick[00:01:38]
He'd got the coin back from his father[00:01:41]
And performed the first part of the trick[00:01:43]
When they saw as he'd swallered his suffering[00:01:47]
With excitement his relatives burned[00:01:51]
And each one suggested some process[00:01:54]
For getting the money returned[00:01:57]
Some were for fishing with tweezers[00:02:00]
Well some were for shaking it out[00:02:04]
If they only got back a few shillings[00:02:07]
They said would be better of the nowt[00:02:10]
They tried holding Albert head downwards[00:02:13]
And giving his back a good thump[00:02:17]
Reals uncle who worked for a chemist[00:02:20]
Said there's nowt for it but stummick pump[00:02:23]
They hadn't a stummick pump Andy[00:02:27]
But pa did the best that he could[00:02:30]
With a bicycle pump as he'd borrowed[00:02:32]
But that weren't a haporth of good[00:02:35]
At the last they to came to the doctor[00:02:38]
Who looked down his throat through a glass[00:02:41]
And said this'll mean operation[00:02:44]
He afraid out to laugh to have gas[00:02:46]
How much is this were going to cost us[00:02:50]
Said father beginning to squirm[00:02:54]
Said the doctor it comes quite expensive[00:02:56]
The best gas is it eightpence a therm[00:03:00]
There's my time four shillings an hour[00:03:03]
You can't do these things in two ticks[00:03:06]
By rights I should charge you a guinea[00:03:09]
But I'll do it for eighteen and six[00:03:12]
What eighteen and six to get sovrin said father[00:03:15]
That doesn't sound sense[00:03:20]
I'll tell you what you'd best keep[00:03:23]
Albert and give me the odd eighteen pence[00:03:25]
The doctor concurred this arrangement[00:03:30]
But to this day is stands in some doubt[00:03:33]
As to whether he's in eighteen shillings[00:03:36]
Or whether he's eighteen pence out[00:03:39]