THE OLD ARMCHAIR

These are from my girlfriend's mum [Agnes Hartwich], so they're from 
memories of old family gatherings. Perhaps someone else might fill 
in the missing words?

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The Old Armchair

1. My grandmother she at the age of eighty three
The day in May felt very ill and died.
And after she was dead the will of course was read
By a lawyer as we all stood by his side
To my brother it was found she'd left a hundred pounds
The same unto my sister I declare
But when it came to me, the lawyer said "I see
She has left to you her old armchair."

Chorus:
How they tittered, how they laughed,
How my brother and my sister chaffed
When they heard the lawyer declare
"Grannie's only left to you her old armchair."

2. My brother he did laugh, my sister she did chaff
And said "It will come useful, John, some day.
When you're settled down in life, found some girl to be your wife,
When the fire is burning bright on a cold and frosty night
You can then sit in your old armchair."

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3. Well, I thought it hardly fair, but still I did not care
And in the evening took the chair away,

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4. Now, one night the chair fell down; as I picked it up I found
That the seat had fallen out upon the floor
And there to my surprise, before my very eyes
A lot of notes, a thousand pounds or more!
When my brother heard of this, the fellow I confess
Went nearly mad with rage - he tore his hair.
But I just looked at him, and said unto him
"Don't you wish you had the old armchair?"

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