Flash, Bang Wallop!

Album: Half A Sixpence (1963)
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    All lined up in a wedding group, here we are for a photograph.
    We're all dressed up in our morning suits all trying not to laugh.
    Since the early caveman in his fur took a trip to Gretna Green.
    There's always been a photographer to record the happy scene.
    Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Click! What a picture! What a photograph!
    Poor old bloke, blimy what a joke. Hat blown off in a cloud of smoke.
    Clap hands! Stamp your feet! Bangin on the big bass drum! What a picture! What a picture!
    Rum tiddley um bum, bum, bum, bum.
    Stick it in your family album!

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    The same thing happened long ago when man was in his prime,
    And what went on we only know from the snaps he took at the time.
    When Adam and Eve in their birthday suit(s) decided to get wed,
    As Adam was about to taste the fruit, the man with the camera said,
    Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Click! What a picture! What a photograph!
    Poor old Eve there with nothing on, face all red and her fig leaf gone.
    Clap hands! Stamp your feet! Bangin on the big bass drum! What a picture! What a picture!
    Rum tiddley um, bum, bum, bum, bum.
    Stick it in your family album!

    One more picture. Hold it

    You've read it in a folio or seen it in a Shakespeare play,
    How Juliet fell for Romeo in the merry merry month of May,
    And as he climbed the orchard wall to reach his lady fair,
    As he tumbled, she began to bawl as he floated through the air.
    Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Click! What a picture! What a photograph!
    Poor, young chap! What a night he spent! Tights all torn and his rapier bent.
    Clap hands! Stamp your feet! Bangin' on the big, bass drum! What a picture! What a picture!
    Rum tiddley um, bum, bum, bum, bum.
    Stick it in your family album!

    One more picture. Hold it

    King Henry the 8th had several wives including Anne Boleyn.
    And he kept an album of their lives with all their photos in.
    As Anne Boleyn was on her knees dressed in her very best frock,
    King Henry shouted smile dear please as her head rolled off the block.
    Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Click! What a picture! What a photograph!
    Comes the print in a little while. She lost her head but she kept her smile.
    Clap hands! Stamp your feet! Bangin' on the big, bass drum! What a picture! What a picture!
    Rum tiddley um, bum, bum, bum, bum.
    Stick it in your family album!

    One more picture. Hold it

    When Napoleon married Josephine there was just the same to do.
    He galloped home from the battle scene all the way from Waterloo.
    And as he came from off his horse to the boodwa where she sat,
    She said to him, in French of course, as he took off his big cocked hat.
    Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop! What a picture! Click! What a picture! What a photograph!
    There she was with a big hooza all caught up in her oo la la.
    Clap hands! Stamp your feet! Bangin' on the big, bass drum! What a picture! What a picture!
    Rum tiddley um, bum, bum, bum, bum.
    Stick it in your family album!

    Stick it in your family

    Stick it in your family

    Stick it in your familyalbum!
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