Elsa Lanchester - Please Sell No More Drink To My Father

Description

With an opening introduction by husband Charles Laughton; this song is from the late 1880's and was very popular at the time, as explained by Charles. Here are the lyrics to this HiFi Vinyl track from the 1957 LP "Songs For A Smoke Filled Room": PLEASE SELL NO MORE DRINK TO MY FATHER S Words by Mr. Frank B. Pratt, music by CA White Copyright 1885 Please sir, will you listen a moment I've something important to say my mother has sent you a message receive it in kindness I pray 'tis of father, poor father, I'm speaking you know him he's call'd ragged Gore but we love him and hope we may save him if you'll promise to sell him no more (chorus) Please sell no more drink to my father it makes him so strange and so wild heed the prayer of my heart-broken mother and pity the poor drunkard's child My father came home yester even reeled home thro' the mud and the rain he upset the lamp on the table and struck my sick mother again then all of the hours till morning he lay on the cold kitchen floor and this morning he's sick and he's sorry oh, promise to sell him no more (chorus) When sober he loves us so dearly no father is kinder than he he wishes so much to stop drinking but this is the trouble you see he cannot withstand the temptation he feels when he passes your door as he goes to his work in the morning please promise to sell him no more (chorus)

Keywords

Elsa, Lanchester, Please, Sell, No, More, Drink, To, My, Father, Charles, Laughton

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