โหลดเพลง mp3 Queen Anne Front (Album Version) - Pete Seeger

Queen Anne Front - Pete Seeger
When Great Grandfather was a gay young man

And Great Grandmother was his bride

They found a lot
A jolly little spot
Over on the old North Side

It sloped down toward the river

From River Avenue

Great Grandma said that it would give her

Such a lovely view

So they took a look in Godey's Ladies Book
To see what they could find

And they found a house
A jolly little house
With a Queen Anne front
And a Mary Anne behind

Now Great Grandfather was a handy man

Who never wasted any time

He found a crew that knew just what to do

With white pine common brick and lime

He said "I'll build a big veranda

Where Amanda can perch

"And I'll sit there myself on Sunday mornings

"When everybody else has gone to church "

The neighbors said "He's crazy in the head
"He's surely lost his mind "

But he built that house
That jolly little house
With a Queen Anne front
And a Mary Anne behind

Now Great Grandpa at last was laid to rest
With Great Grandmother at his side

Old Aunt Amanda said "My land an
"Empty house I can't abide

"I'll start a ladies' seminary

It will be very select

"Of course it will be very necessary
"That all my girls be circumspect "

As you may guess it was a big success
Those girls were so refined

In that self-same house
That jolly little house
With a Queen Anne front
And a Mary Anne behind

Now Aunt Amanda's work at last was done
And she passed on to her reward

Appeared a sign that bore the line
Announcing simply "Room and Board "

The house was soon filled with roomers

Of every degree

Red flannel underwear and bloomers

Hung out for everyone to see

The old porch stoop had started in to droop
The house looked so resigned

That self-same house
That jolly little house
With a Queen Anne front
And a Mary Anne behind

Now that old house was looking worse and worse

And so was River Avenue

Wooden shacks across the tracks
Spoiled Great Grandma's lovely view

A group of very pretty ladies moved in there one day

The were such charmy Sues and Sadies

But a wagon came and took them all away

Said one old dame "Now isn't it a shame
"My girls were so refined "

But they closed that house
That jolly little house
With a Queen Anne front
And a Mary Anne behind