Chords for When Father Papered The Parlour (Anchors Aweigh)

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When father papered the parlor, you couldn't see [D] him for mates.
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, paste [Abm] and paper [G] everywhere.
Me brother was stuck to the ceiling, me sister [D] stuck to the floor.
I never saw a family that was so stuck up [G] before.
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It was getting close to Christmas time and mother [C] was in a tear.
[D] Cooking and cleaning and fixing the house the same [G] as every year.
With one job left to tackle before the [C] Christmas cough.
[D] The parlor needed paper and then father [G] was putting it up.
When tipsy finally rolled around and mother [C] laid down the law.
[D] Read that paper before dad, be [G] nervous or I'll run.
She left for the card game, the yearly [C] Christmas beer.
[D] And George came by a visitant and brought some home brew beer.
[G] When father papered the parlor, you couldn't [D] see him for mates.
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, paste [N] and paper [G] everywhere.
Me brother was stuck to the ceiling, me sister [D] stuck to the floor.
I never saw a family that was so stuck up before.
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They drank to health of all around, up and [C] down the shore.
[D] Finished off the beer supply and ordered [G] out for more.
When father had a brain storm, a rare [C] event no doubt.
[Bm] I got to [G] get that paper hung, George help me out by.
The print was scenes of Newfoundland, colour from [C] red to brown.
[D] To make my sense of anything, we all walk [G] upside down.
All those almost vertical, from uses [C] on a slant.
[D] The only way to see Island Cove is hanging from the lamp.
[G] When father papered the parlor, you couldn't see [D] him for mates.
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, [C] paste and paper [G] everywhere.
Me brother was stuck to the ceiling, me sister [D] stuck to the floor.
I never saw a family that was so stuck [G] up before.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
We're never going to move away from this house [C]
anymore.
[D] For father's gone and stuck the chair and tables [G] to the floor.
And when he trimmed the edges off the paper [C] with the shears.
[D] The dog was underneath it and he cut off [G] both his ears.
Then George fell down the stairs and dropped the [C] sabre hangers can.
[D] Our sister Henrietta was sporting [G] with her man.
But they stuck them together, we thought it would [C] be for life.
[D] We had to get the minister to make the man and wife.
[G] When father papered the parlor, you couldn't see [D] him for mates.
Dabbing it here, dabbing it there, [Am] paste and [G] paper everywhere.
Me brother was stuck to the ceiling, me sister [D] stuck to the floor.
I never saw a family that was so stuck [G] up before.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
Me brother's stuck in Port-au-Prince, me [C] sister's in Carrefour.
[D] One's in Bergeron, the [G] other's in Spanish Rome.
Pictures in all the paper, they just don't [C] make no sense.
[D] We think the organs in Grandpa, but we ain't seen Grandma since.
[G] The mother's in the doghouse with Christmas [C] drawing nears.
[D] And George has got his orders, no more old [G] Ruvier.
We have this little private joke that you may [C]
understand.
[D] Our family is more stuck up than any in [G]
Newfoundland.
When father papered the [B] parlor, you couldn't see him for pace.
[C] Dabbing it here, [G] dabbing it there, paste and paper everywhere.
Me brother was stuck to the ceiling, me sister stuck [D] to the floor.
I never saw a family that was so stuck up [G] before.
[D] Oh, I never saw a family that was so stuck up before.