IN MY LITTLE SNAPSHOT ALBUM
(Harper / Haines / Parr-Davies)

as recorded by George Formby
April 3rd 1938


Now I'm a young inventor, a chap with good ideas,
I've built meself a camera, it took me years and years!
Its a wonderful invention with special x-ray tricks,
It can take a picture in the dark and can even see through bricks!
I bought meself an album and filled it up with snaps,
And I've got some lovely pictures of the local girls and chaps!

Now I've got a picture of the girl next door
In me little snapshot album,
And I've never had a better snap before
In me little snapshot album!
The night was dark and the hour was late,
She was kissing her boy by the garden gate,
Hey, wouldn't she love to see page eight
In me little snapshot album!

And I've got a picture of me old grandad
In me little snapshot album.
He's over eighty but a real bad lad
In me little snapshot album.
Although he's an old antique,
He thinks he's still the village sheik;
I've got him dancing cheek to cheek
In me little snapshot album!

Now I've got a picture of the vicar's wife
In me little snapshot album,
Chasing the curate with a carving knife
In me little snapshot album!
Now what he did was all in fun,
But it's not the kind of thing that's done,
I can see he pinched her hot cross bun
In me little snapshot album!

And I've got a picture of a nudist camp
In me little snapshot album,
All very jolly but a trifle damp
In me little snapshot album.
There's uncle Dick without a care,
Discarding all his underwear,
But his watch and chain still dangles there
In me little snapshot album!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - September 2017)