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The War has provided some problems

That have worried us all quite a lot

How can we live when the price of our food

Is fourteen and thruppence a box?

But the thing that worries me

And the whole darn family

Is where can poor Pa go in the blackout?

Where can poor Pa go at nights?

He can’t find his way to his favourite club

He can’t find his pals 'cause he can’t find the pub

So, where does poor Pa go in the blackout?

He stays home and glares at the kids

He grumbles at Mother, she grumbles at him

And says, «Well, go out, I’m not keeping you in»

So, Father goes out in the blackout

Although it is pouring with rain

And just as he gets out, then off goes the siren

So he comes right home again

Where can poor Pa go in the blackout?

Where can poor Pa go at nights?

There aren’t any pools and he doesn’t play Nap

His coat’s in the tool shed, he can’t find his cap

So, what does Pa do in the blackout?

He stays home and mopes by the fire

He can’t spend his money and Mother knows that

She takes it all from him to buy a new hat

So, Father he curses the blackout

And says it will drive him insane

He pops his head out and then off goes a siren

So he pops it back again

We know where the flies go in Winter

We’ve all known that old one for years

And most of our lads have by now found the daughter

Of Mam’selle from Armentieres

But there’s one thing must remain

So I ask you once again

What can poor Pa do in the blackout?

What can poor Pa do at nights?

If he gets to the pub, well, it’s tenpence a pint

It costs him at least thirty bob to get tight

So, what does Pa do in the blackout?

He just sits at home and looks glum

He started on fretwork, he painted the bath

But Mother sat in it, we didn’t arf laugh

And Father was out in the blackout

And Mother screamed out with the pain

And as soon as he heard it, he thought 'twas the siren

So he rushed right home again

Where can poor Pa go in the blackout?

Where can poor Pa go at night?

His pals are all stuck in their homes just like him

They cannot get out, so they gotta stop in

So what can poor Pa do in the blackout?

He says that it’s driving him mad

He puts on the wireless and what does he get?

Just Haw-Haw and Boo-Hoo, and they’re pretty wet

So he tries to go out in the blackout

But he goes and falls right down a drain

He limps back to Mother and she tells him he’s drunk

And so he limps right out again

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