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Artist/Band: Flanders And Swann
Lyrics for Song: Gas Man Cometh, The
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Flanders And Swann



This song is a ballad about ending domestic upheaval.

I'm sure you've all had something of the same experience, it's called:

'The gas man cometh'.



'Twas on the Monday morning

The gasman came to call

The gas tap wouldn't turn

I wasn't getting gas at all

He tore out all the skirting boards

To try and find the main

And I had to call the carpenter to put them back again

Oh, it all makes work

For the working man to do



'Twas on the Tuesday morning

The carpenter came round

He hammered and he chiselled and said

Look what I've found

Your joists are full of dry-rot

Though I'll put them all to rights

And he nailed right though a cable, (pop)

And out went all the lights

Oh, it all makes work

For the working man to do



'Twas on the Wednesday morning

The electrician came

He called me Mr Sanderson

Which isn't quite me name

He couldn't reach the fuse-box

Without standing on the bin

And his foot went through a window

So I called the glazier in

Oh, it all makes work

For the working man to do



'Twas on the Thursday morning

The glazier came along

With his blowtorch and his putty

And his merry glazier song

He put another pane in

It took no time at all

But I had to get a painter in

To come and paint the wall

Oh, it all makes work

For the working man to do



'Twas on a Friday morning

The painter made a start

With undercoats, and overcoats

He painted every part

Every nook and every cranny

But I found when he was gone

He'd painted over the gas tap

And I couldn't turn it on

Oh, it all makes work

For the working man to do



On Saturday and Sunday

They do no work at all

So 'twas on the Monday morning

That the gasman came to call


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Flanders And Swann


Flanders And Swann
"Other Songs - Flanders And Swann"


1. First And Second Law
2. Gas Man Cometh, The
3. Gnu Song, The
4. Lost My Horn, I