Three Brothers-Joyce Grenfell

[ti:Three Brothers] [ar:Joyce Grenfell] [al:The Very Best of Joyce Grenfell] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.89]Three Brothers - Joyce Grenfell [00:04.03]I had three Brothers, [00:07.11]Harold and Robert and James, [00:10.43]All of them tall and handsome, [00:13.69]All of them good at games. [00:16.74]And I was allowed to field for them, [00:18.90]To bowl to them, to score: [00:21.05]I was allowed to slave for them [00:23.29]For ever and evermore. [00:26.76]Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carry [00:30.50]For my Three Brothers, [00:34.37]Jim and Bob and Harry. [00:39.60] [00:41.96]All of my brothers, [00:44.44]Harry and Jim and Bob, [00:47.56]Grew to be good and clever, [00:50.94]Each of them at his job. [00:53.90]And I was allowed to wait on them, [00:56.24]To be their slave complete. [00:58.42]I was allowed to work for them, [01:00.66]And life for me was sweet, [01:04.29]For I was allowed to fetch and carry [01:08.24]For my Three Brothers, [01:12.08]Jim and Bob and Harry. [01:18.24] [01:19.19]Jim went out to South Africa, [01:21.48]Bob went out to Ceylon. [01:24.15]Harry went out to New Zealand [01:27.13]And settled in Wellington. [01:29.73]And the grass grew high on the cricket pitch, [01:33.51]And the tennis court went to hay, [01:37.23]And the place was too big and too silent [01:41.97]After they went away. [01:44.80]So I turned it into a Guest House [01:48.16]After our parents died, [01:51.01]And I wrote to the boys every Sunday, [01:54.02]And once a year they replied. [01:57.36]All of them married eventually, [02:00.88]I wrote to their wives, of course, [02:03.93] [02:04.94]Their wives wrote back on postcards [02:09.00]Well it might to been very much worse. [02:12.08] [02:12.97]And now I have nine nieces, [02:16.63]Most of them home at school. [02:19.92]I have them all to stay here [02:23.00]For the holidays as a rule. [02:25.88] [02:26.42]And I am allowed to week a them, [02:28.79]To do odd jobs galore. [02:30.87]I am allowed to slave for them, [02:33.16]And life is sweet once more, [02:37.17]For I am allowed to fetch and carry [02:41.53]For the children of Jim and Bob and Harry. [02:53.82]