Songtexte Five And Twenty Years - George Formby

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!