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Whistles & Bells
04:02
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WHISTLES & BELLS
I’m bagging spuds
In rotten cotton ragged duds
Name badge, plastic hat and snood
The future is beige
For minimum wage
Knock-down prices for knocked-up food
Neither bright nor adroit
I’m just a slug to exploit:
Mr Hackman gets his cut of sweaty meat
But I just won’t quit
’Cos I get my daily hit
Of the miss across the street
She works in Whistles & Bells
I’ve got an ice cream’s chance in Hell
I’m a perfect defect and she’s terribly nice
… Oh well…
Pushing dirt across the floor
Dream this broom was my amour
We’d dance on air like Ginger & Fred
If this trolley were a car
A till would be a bar
And this conveyor belt a hotel bed
If I weren’t so un-bold
I’d dart across the road
And tell her almost exactly how I felt
(But my) yellow nerves can’t be soothed
I shall not be moved
She makes my heart stop and my legs melt
She works in Whistles & Bells
I’ve got an ice cream’s chance in Hell
I’m a perfect defect and she’s terribly nice
She works in Whistles & Bells
One thought rattling in my brain cell
She can have my love at a discount price
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Tuppenny Blues
02:23
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TUPPENNY BLUES
What’s the cost of getting the Tuppenny Blues?
Green-eyed, pink, panting, inspecting the clues
And the pennies I’ve saved
Of the black and red hues
Would I ransom them and be a king
Wearing paper bag shoes?
Gramps’ failing earsight set on ‘Shilling The Rubes’
Kids not dived for scubas since they sprouted pubes
The bird’s break is up the Swannee
And sex is down the tubes
Confessin’ my obsession, I choose to chase
The Tuppenny Blues
Keep frank away from my Tuppenny Blues
A no-mark of approval, the shock’d blow my fuse
Going ape for Gibbons’ Booty
Guerrilla moves, I Strand accused
Driving me bananas, now and mañana
With the Tuppenny Blues
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R&R
08:07
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R & R
Repetition.
What’s with all this repetition?
Is this the chorus or the verse?
What’s with all this repetition?
Write a middle-eight
We must be halfway through
You know that it’s not too late
Write a middle-eight
We must be halfway through
You know that it’s not too late
C’mon boys, it’d be great
Write a middle-eight.
What’s with all this repetition?
Is this the chorus or the verse?
Is this the chorus again or the second verse?
What’s with all this repetition?
Is this song over yet?
Not yet.
Write a middle-eight
We must be halfway through
You know that it’s not too late
Write a middle-eight
We must be halfway through
You know that it’s not too late
C’mon boys, it’d be great
Write a middle-eight.
Repetition.
This song is long enough
For all of us
But it ain’t us who’s gonna stop.
What’s with all this repetition?
What about your reputation?
Is this the chorus or the verse?
Is this song over yet?
Yes.
Repetition.
Write a middle-eight
We must be halfway through
You know that it’s not too late
Write a middle-eight
We’re halfway through
It’s not too late
C’mon boys, it’d be great
Let’s have a middle-eight.
Repetition.
Is this the chorus again or the third verse?
Repetition.
This song is long enough
For all of us
But it ain’t us who’s gonna stop.
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