Upstairs Downstairs - What Are We Going To Do With Uncle Arthur
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH UNCLE ARTHUR?
Theme from the TV Series "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971-1975)
Performed & recorded by: Pauline Collins (1973)
Music: Alexander Faris
Lyrics: Alfred Shaughnessy
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[Verse 1]
C
What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?
G
A blinking stallion, is Uncle Arthur.
When he goes a-strolling in the park,
C
Watch your step, girls, especially after dark.
Any old skirt's a flirt to Uncle Arthur,
F
He's over eighty, but how he can run!
"Give us a kiss, my dear," he'd say,
C
And tickle you up the boom-di-ay,
G C
And say it was just an 'armless bit of fun.
[Verse 2]
C
What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?
G
Have him doctored like a tomcat?
You'd have thought by now he'd has his fill,
C
But my aunt can't bloody well keep him still,
Saturday night'll find him at the boozer,
F
A couple of pints there, then off he will pop,
Straighten his hat and up the street,
C
As light as a feather on his feet,
G C
A dirty old man who don't know when to stop.
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
C
What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur?
G
A public nuisance, is Uncle Arthur.
Though he's bald, deaf, dirty and decayed,
C
He's the uncrowned king of the esplanade.
Nothing on earth can seem to damp his ardour,
F
He's trying harder, the older he grows.
One of these days he'll have to die,
C
What will he get up to in the sky?
Well heaven and Uncle Arthur only,
You can be sure he won't be lonely,
G C
Heaven and Uncle Arthur only knows.
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