My Family Tree
Tono: Original
Brilliant Mod found this :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgS4lCT2F4c
last seen in 1971 I suspect. thanks
My Family Tree typical Jake witty, clever and frequently shocking.
[verse 1]
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Up my, my family tree
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There hangs my curious pedigree,
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My long, my lurid ancestry
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The prancing phantoms and ghosts Of my forefathers.
[chorus]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
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Up my, up my family tree.
[verse 2]
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Up my, my family tree,
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No blue blood, no nobility
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No trace of aristocracy
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Except for Uncle Sebastian Who once raped a duchess.
[chorus]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
[verse 3]
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We've no ancestral halls
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No haughty portraits on our walls;
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No family monuments at all
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Unless it's my cousin Sheila's Stupendous cleavage.
[chorus]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
[verse 4]
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My great-great-uncle Sam
F C
A very tranquil sort of man,
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Could not afford his wife a pram -
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He pushed his babies round the park In a green wheelbarrow.
[chorus]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
[verse 5]
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My Uncle Will, my Auntie May
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Were very much in love, so they
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Got married after some delay
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They dressed their kids up in white When they both went legal.
[CHORUS]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
[VERSE 6]
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When brother Richard was thirteen
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He was a Boy Scout, keen and clean.
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He got presented to the Queen -
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And then he went and spoiled it all When he offered her a Rolly!
[chorus]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
[VERSE 7]
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Let this be understood,
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That our family name is mud,
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Our sheep are black our cheques are dud
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But we survive! We're alive! So it's up with the Thackrays!
[CHORUS]
F G Am
Nevertheless, despite their sins,
C G Am
Bless my kiths and bless my kins.
Am G Am
There they perch for all to see
Am
Up my, up my family tree.
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