FIVE AND TWENTY YEARS
(Harry Gifford / Fred E Cliffe / George Formby)

as recorded by George Formby
October 29th 1936


Now there's always alterations,
Though some are for our good.
I'll bet there's lots of things
We'd like to alter if we could!
But what's the use of looking glum?
There's still a lot more years to come!

Says the old maid every evening,
As beneath her bed she peers,
"Once more darned unlucky,
After five and twenty years!"

Last night grandma kissed grandpa,
Whispered love words in his ears.
Said grandpa, "Blimey, nark it
After five and twenty years!"

Time brings changes;
Though you're in your prime,
Everybody changes with time!

At the well one night, Rebecca
Met a young man with ideas.
That night she cracked her pitcher
After five and twenty years!

An actress tells her right age
In the papers, it appears.
She's been twenty seven now
For five and twenty years!

An old man joined the nudists
And he said, "Last night, my dears,
I haven't felt like I feel now
For five and twenty years!"

Time brings changes;
Though you're in your prime,
Everybody changes with time!

Said Mrs Brown, the widow, 
"If someone volunteers,
I'll take anythin' in trousers
After five and twenty years!"

Jones never took his wife out,
Till the boiler burst, poor dears,
Then they both went out together
After five and twenty years!

To King Solomon, one evening,
Said his favourite wife in tears,
"Must you still sleep with your father
After five and twenty years!"

Time brings changes;
Though you're in your prime,
Everybody changes with time!

Our village birthrate's falling
And no wonder we have fears,
The squire's son has been away
For five and twenty years!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - August 2017)