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1. All lined up in a wedding group 'ere we are for a photograph,
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we're
all dressed up in a morning suit, all trying hard not to laugh.
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Since the early caveman in his
fur took a trip to
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there's
always been a photographer to record the 'appy scene.
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'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
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what a picture, what
a photograph,
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poor old soul, blimey, what a joke,
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hat blown off in a cloud of smoke.
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Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, bangin' on the big bass drum !
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What a picture, what a picture, um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum,
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stick it in your fam'ly album !
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2. The same thing 'appened long ago when man
was in his prime,
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and
what went on we only know from the snaps he took at the time.
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When Adam and Eve in their
birthday suit decided to get wed,
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as
Adam was about to taste the fruit, the man with the cam'ra
said :
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'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
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what
a picture, what a photograph,
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poor old Eve, there with nothing
on,
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face all red and 'er fig leaf gone.
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Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, bangin' on the big bass drum !
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What a picture, what a picture, um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum,
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stick it in your fam'ly album !
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to capo 1st here)
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3. You've read it in a folio or seen it in a Shakespeare play,
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how
Juliet fell for Romeo in the merry month of May.
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And as 'e climbed the orchard
wall to reach 'is lady fair,
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as he
tumbled, she began to bawl, as he travelled through the air !
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'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
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what
a picture, what a photograph,
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poor young chap, what a night 'e
spent,
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tights all torn and 'is rapier bent.
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Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, bangin' on the big bass drum !
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What a picture, what a picture, um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum,
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stick it in your fam'ly album !
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4. King 'Enry the Eighth had several wives including
Anne Boleyn,
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and
he kept an album of their lives with all their photos in.
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As Anne Boleyn was on her
knees, dressed in her very best frock,
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King 'Enry
shouted, "Smile, Dear, please"
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as 'er 'ead rolled off the block.
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'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
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what
a picture, what a photograph,
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comes the print in a little while,
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she lost 'er
'ead, but she kept 'er
smile.
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Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, bangin' on the big bass drum !
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What a picture, what a picture, um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum,
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stick it in your fam'ly album !
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to capo 2nd here)
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5. When Napoleon married Josephine, there was just the same to-do,
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he
galloped home from the battle scene all the way from
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And as he came from orf 'is 'orse to the boudoir
where she sat,
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she
said to 'im, in French of course, as he took of his
big cocked 'at.
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'Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture,
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what
a picture, what a photograph,
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there she was, with a big Hussar,
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all caught up in 'er oh-la-la.
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Clap 'ands, stamp yer feet, bangin' on the big bass drum !
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What a picture, what a picture, um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum,
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stick it in your fam'ly album !
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+ Stick it in your fam'ly, stick it in your fam'ly,
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in
your fam'ly album !
(Tommy Steele)