====== #1154 - Everybody Works But Father ======
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  *Composer:
    *Jean Havez (1869-1925), 1905
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Every morning at six o'clock\\
I go to my work,\\
Overcoat buttoned up 'round my neck\\
No job would I shirk,\\
Winter wind blows 'round my head\\
Cutting up my face,\\
I tell you that I'd like to have\\
My dear old father's place.\\
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Everybody works but father\\
And he sits around all day,\\
Feet in front of the fire,\\
Smoking his pipe of clay,\\
Mother takes in washing\\
So does sister Ann,\\
Everybody works at our house\\
But my old man.\\
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A man named Work moved into town,\\
And father heard the news,\\
With Work so near, my father started\\
Shaking in his shoes.\\
When Mister Work walked by the house\\
He saw with great surprise,\\
My father sitting in his chair\\
With blinders on his eyes.\\
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At beating carpets father said\\
He simply was immense,\\
We took the parlor carpet out\\
And hung it on the fence,\\
My mother said: "Now beat it dear,\\
With all your might and main,"\\
And father beat it right back\\
To the fireside again.\\
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    *Jean Havez (1869-1925), 1905