Grandad

Grandad Lyrics

Song Grandad
Artist Jake Thackray
Album Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976)
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[00:09.21] If you come around to mourn for Grandad
[00:12.15] Don't dress up in black cause
[00:14.70] Although me Grandad's dead and buried odds on he'll be back yes
[00:18.78] Although they stuffed him in a coffin and read out the will and
[00:22.47] Although he's six foot deep in darkness he'll never lie still
[00:26.82] He's made of sterner stuff he's not dead enough
[00:33.24] Angels saints and seraphim
[00:37.11] Please please will you try to keep an eye
[00:42.36] On him
[00:44.58] On his ninetieth birthday Grandad went down for a drink now
[00:48.45] Me Grandad is a rabid dipso with a throat like a sink he
[00:52.56] Drank himself toward the skyline and his friends to the floor just
[00:56.46] To prove how fit he was for boozing for ninety years more
[01:00.27] Your pearly gates he'll climb when it's opening time
[01:06.72] Angels saints and seraphim
[01:10.44] You'll you'll find it hard to keep a guard
[01:15.51] On him
[01:17.52] They brought him home upon a handcart with his legs in the air he
[01:21.33] Was singing Rule Britannia backwards in his underwear he
[01:25.38] Challenged all the county police force to a fight right away then
[01:29.19] He offered to put the Ladies' Union in the family way
[01:32.73] Your crystal domes will shake when he makes his break
[01:39.06] Angels saints and seraphim
[01:42.66] Please please don't expect that much respect
[01:47.70] From him
[01:49.89] The doctor lifted up an eyelid and pronounced him gone but
[01:53.67] To judge from Grandad's finger signals the doctor was wrong they
[01:57.69] Dressed him in his Sunday night shirt they combed out his hair but
[02:01.47] They couldn't get my Grandad's boots off he'd need them up there
[02:05.19] Your silken wings he'll shed He will paint Paradise red
[02:11.79] Angels saints and seraphim
[02:15.45] He'll give you the slip so get a grip
[02:20.40] On him
[02:22.74] Even at the solemn moment he wouldn't behave for
[02:26.28] I heard him whistling in his coffin on his way to the grave he
[02:30.45] Took off toward the New Jerusalem with his pinch of salt I
[02:34.38] Distinctly heard him flatulating in his marble vault
[02:38.13] Your candles will be dimmed when he gets the wind
[02:44.67] Angels saints and seraphim
[02:49.17] Although he's old although he's cold
[02:55.38] Keep a tight hold on him
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