She Fought Like A Tiger For 'er 'onour

She Fought Like A Tiger For 'er 'onour - Gracie Fields

My auntie Flo is sixty or so

She always says she's old-fashioned and slow

She's never been married

You'll hear her exclaim

But she's covered some grass

In her time all the same

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

With funny old-fashioned ideas

Men of today are unmanly she'll say

And they don't seem to love in the old-fashioned way

She says she has dreams of a lover sublime

He comes in her sleep like a nursery rhyme

So she stays in her bed for three weeks at a time

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

Cocktails and spirits she never permits

But last Christmas party she had us in fits

She drank two small ports and then did the split

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

Auntie will say: girls of today

Speak in the naughtiest blush-making way

But tell her a story you think is new

And she'll say "I heard that one before I was two "

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

With funny old-fashioned ideas

Children today are all spoiled she will say

How different from good Queen Victoria's day

Singing she says is an art that is dead

And crooners well they simply make her see red

But she's twenty-seven portraits of Bing round her bed

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

She's one of those old-fashioned ladies

With funny old-fashioned ideas

Girls say such things you will hear Auntie tell

And this slang from America's really well well

"Gosh" and "oh gee" sound so common she'll say

The worst of the lot is that dreadful "OK "

But I heard her call someone a "twerp" yesterday

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

She says that the talkies with sickness weak

Not fit for a lady to see or to speak

And she ought to know she goes five times a week

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies

She's one of those old-fashioned ladies

With funny old-fashioned ideas

Husbands today are so rare she will say

So she just jogs along in her spinsterly way

It seems such a pity she never was wed

But she has a cat and a parrot instead

And a hot-water bottle she always calls "Fred"

'Cause she's one of those old-fashioned ladies