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Lyrics for We Never Mention Aunt Clara by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | We Never Mention Aunt Clara | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 193 | | | | Lyrics: | WE NEVER MENTION AUNT CLARA
*1
She used to sing hymns in the old village
choir
She taught at the Sunday-school class,
At playing the organ she never would
tire
Those dear days are over, alas.
*2
In church at the organ she'd practice each
day
While the minister pumped up and down.
His wife caught him pumping the organ one
day
And that's why aunt Clara left town.
*3
With presents he tempted and lured her to
sin
Her innocent virtue to smirch,
But her honor was strong and she never gave
in
Till he gave her the deed to the church.
Cho.
We never mention aunt
Clara;
Her picture is turned to the wall.
Though she lives on the French
Riviera
Mother says she is dead to us all.
*4
They said that she'd toil by night
and by day
She'd have to scrub floors for her bread,
But inside of a week she discovered a
way
To earn her board lying in bed.
*5
They told her the wages of sinners was
death.
To this my aunt Clara just said
That she'd just as soon die with champagne on
her
breath,
And pink satin sheets on her bed.
*6
They said no one cared if
she'd ever come back
When she left us her fortune to seek
But the boys in the firehouse
painted it black
And the ball team wore mourning that week.
*7
The said that no man
would make her his bride
They prophesied children of shame
But she's married three earls
and a baron besides
And she hasn't a child to her name.
*8
They said that Hellfire
would punish her sin
She'd burn for her carryings-on
But just at the moment she's toasting
her skin
On the beaches of Dover and Cannes.
*9
They said that to garments of
sackcloth she'd sink
With ashes to cover her head.
But just at the moment it's ermine and
mink
And a diamond tiara instead.
*10
They say that she's sunk in the muck and the
mud
But the papers last week showed a snap
Of aunt Clara, at Nice, with a prince of the
blood
And a bishop asleep on her lap.
*11
The best things in life always go to the
pure
The Sunday school lessons all teach
But I wonder when I see the rotogravure
Of
her eighty room shack at the beach.
*12
They say that she's sunken, they say that she
fell
From the narrow and virtuous path,
But her French formal gardens are sunken as
well
And so is her pink marble bath.
*13
My poor mother's life has been pious and
meek
She drives in a second-hand Ford.
Aunt Clara received, for her birthday, last
week
A Rolls-Royce, a Stutz and a Cord.
*14
My mother does all of her housework
alone
She has to scrub clothes for her board
It strikes me that virtue's not only its
own,
But also its only reward.
final cho.
So we never mention aunt Clara,
But I think that when I grow up tall
I shall live on the French Riviera
And
let mother turn me to the wall.
parody of Picture Turned Toward the Wall
@parody
@humor
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