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lirik lagu richard mitchley - ella wheeler wilcox - music in the flat

when tom and i were married, we took a little flat;
i had a taste for singing and playing and all that
and tom, who loved to hear me, said he hoped i would not stop
all practice, like so many wives who let their music drop
so i resolved to set apart an hour or two each day
to keeping vocal chords and hands in trim to sing and play

the second morning i had been for half an hour or more
at work on haydn’s masses, when a tap came at my door
a nurse, who wore a dainty cap and apr~n, and a smile
ran down to ask if i would cease my music for awhile
the lady in the flat above was very ill, she said
and the sound of my piano was distracting to her head

a fortnight’s exеrcises lost, ere i bеgan them, when
the following morning at my door, there came that tap again;
a woman with an anguished face implored me to forego
my music for some days to come—a man was dead below
i shut down my piano till the corpse had left the house
and spoke to tom in whispers and was quiet as a mouse

a week of labor limbered up my stiffened hand and voice
i stole an extra hour from sleep, to practice and rejoice;
when, ting~a~ling, the door~bell rang a discord in my trill—
the baby in the flat across was very, very ill
for ten long days that infant’s life was hanging by a thread
and all that time my instrument was silent as the dead
so pain and death and sickness came in one perpetual row
when babies were not born above, then tenants died below
the funeral over underneath, some one fell ill on top
and begged me, for the love of god, to let my music drop
when trouble went not up or down, it stalked across the hall
and so in spite of my resolve, i do not play at all

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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