Now when I learned to play the ukulele,
I used to practice day and night.
My pals all roared as I fumbled at a chord,
But I couldn't get the darned thing right.
They laughed when I started to play, they laughed so hearty.
Only two lessons I had, I went up the scale and down the scale,
It wasn't so bad
But one chap, he said Oh what a mug, why you can't learn that way
He took the uke off me and said Now I'll have a try
Just then the 'G' string bust and flew right into his eye.
He laughed when I started to play, but he didn't laugh again all day
Oh they laughed when I started to play, oh they laughed so hearty
Strip poker that's a good game,
Once I lost my trousers to a gambling dame
But when, I started shuffling the cards, then the luck came my way.
I won a frock and undies, she was left I declare
As bare as any savage and as savages are bear
She laughed when I started to play,
But she didn't laugh again that day.
Now once I watched a game of water polo,
With players from a ladies school.
The girls all cried Won't you make up a side?
So I dashed into the bathing pool.
They laughed when I started to play, oh how they laughed so hearty.
In goal, I paddled about, a big ball in the water soon I started to clout.
Each time, that it came bobbing back, well I smacked it away.
Just then the ball turned over and a girl said No larks,
Seven times you've hit me where I can't show the marks.
She laughed when I started to play,
But she didn't laugh again that day.
They Laughed When I Started To Play
George Formby
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Lyrics by George Formby
A Farmer's Boy A Lad From Lancashire Andy the Handy Man Andy the Handy Man [From Much Too Shy] Auntie Maggie's Remedy Aunty Maggies Homemade Remedy Bell Bottom George Biceps, Muscle And Brawn Blackpool Rock (With My Little Stick Of) Chinese Laundry Blues Do De O Do Guarding the Home of the Home Guards Happy Go Lucky Me Happy Go Lucky Me [From the Time of Your Life] Hindoo Man I'd Do It With A Smile I'm Shy Imagine Me in the Maginot Line Keep Your Seats Please Leaning On A Lamp-Post Noughts And Crosses Riding in the TT Races Talking To The Moon About You The Emperor Of Lancashire The Lad from Lancashire When I'm Cleaning Windows With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock With My Little Ukelele In My Hand You're Everything To Me
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