Song Lyrics That Make You Smile

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    Just had "Billericay Dickie" by Ian Dury &The Blockheads pop up on Spotify. Haven't heard it in a long, long time. A bit risque, but it brought a smile to my face.

    "Had a love affair with Nina
    In the back of my Cortina
    A seasoned up hyena
    Could not have been more obscener
    She took me to the cleaners
    And other misdemeanours
    But I got right up between her
    Rum and her Ribena"

    Any other offerings?
     
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    Love is the Law - Seahorses

    Mad Lizzy Crumbs blind cobblers
    Thumbs were a sight to behold
    She was a rum old slapper and we always
    Tried to get her pants off when she phoned
    Left her cap by the sink it's not what you think
    Oh take me home
     
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    Madness – Shame and Scandal

    In Trinidad, there was a family
    Much confusion as you will see
    It was a mama and a papa and a boy who was grown
    Wanted to marry and have wife of his own
    Found a young girl, who suited him nice
    Went to his papa to ask his advice
    His papa said son, I have to say no
    That girl is your sister but your mama don’t know

    Woh, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family
    Woh, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family

    A week went by and the summer came down
    Soon the best cook in the islands he found
    He went to his papa, to make a day
    His papa shook his head and to him he did say
    You can’t marry that girl, I have to say no
    That girl is your sister, but your mama don’t know

    Woh, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family
    Woh, it’s real, shame and scandal in the family

    Went to his mama, and thought what he said
    And told his mama, what his papa had said
    His mama she laughed she says, go man go
    Your daddy ain’t your daddy, but your daddy don’t know
     
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    Pretty much owt by half man half biscuit

    "I linger and gawp
    When the council dig a big hole
    And I cheer for a corner
    I don’t know why, they rarely lead to a goal"

    "if I were a linesman, I would execute defenders who applauded my offsides"

    "there's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets"

    "Telephone call
    Telling me
    My old friend Graham had died
    I took a ride
    Down to where I
    Could be of assistance

    I said to his wife
    Don’t give in
    To grieving cliche and turn
    His side of the room
    Into a shrine
    It just doesn’t work

    My arm round her shoulder
    Gently I told her
    Dead men don’t need season tickets"
     
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    Blur: Parklife.

    "I get up when I want. Except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen."
     
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    Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne - always reminds me of good times gone by (H.M.A.F.)

    Sittin' in a sleazy snack-bar suckin'
    Sickly sausage rolls
    Slippin' down slowly
    Slippin' down sideways
    Think I'll sign off the dole
     
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    Is a fantastic line.

    My favourite rhyming couplet that always makes me smile:
    One minute she says, she's gone to get the cat in
    The next thing I know, she's mumbling in Latin

    And also from Billy Bragg's Worker's Playtime:
    One of em's off her food
    And the other one's off his head
    And both of them are off down the boozer

    And from Bill Bailey's excellent Billy Bragg pastiche
    I wanted to free her
    In my dreams I would see her
    Running naked through the woods round Rainham
    If I had some tigers I'd train them
     
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    The very British lyric by Squeeze: I had a word with Stanley/he said I'd come in handy/he started me on Monday/so I had a bath on Sunday.

    Also, all the lyrics of Autumn Almanac and the way Ray Davies sings it, makes me smile.
     
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    ME, i'm just a lawnmower and you can tell me by the way i walk
     
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    Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours?
    But they make it very clear, they've got no room for ravers
    They stop me from groovin', they bang on me wall
    They're doing me crust in, it's no good at all, ah!

    'Ere we all are, sitting in a rainbow
    Gor blimey hello Mrs Jones, how's your Bert's lumbago? (mustn't grumble)
    I'll sing you a song with no words and no tune
    To sing in your khazi while you suss out the moon, oh yeah!
     
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    Was playing the live version from utube yesterday.....

    Nowegian wood....Beatles

    I once had a girl
    or should i say she once had me
     
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    These also make me smile..

    XTC "Life Begins At The Hop"

    Prepare yourself for the boys in the band at the hop
    The cheap guitars, they're too young for the bars at the hop
    We'll jive around, make fools of ourselves and then stop
    We're back next week with another ridiculous tie knot"

    The Undertones "My Perfect Cousin"

    His mother bought him a synthesizer
    Got the Human League in to advise her


    And the whole of Free's "My Brother Jake". A song that always cheers me up. Essentially a song about optimism and not giving up on someone.

    "I said Jake, Jake, Jake,
    won't you wait, wait, wait
    What's got into you?
    Your candle is burning,
    the wheels of time are turning,
    What you gonna do?

    Listen,
    I'm gonna break you Jake,
    Because you got what it takes
    To give a whole lotta people some soul."
     
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    This is a good one of theirs:

    She stayed with me until she moved to Notting Hill
    She said it was the place she needs to be
    Where the cocaine is Fairtrade and frequently displayed
    Is the Buena Vista Social Club CD
    I thought she'd be back in three weeks and we'd go wandering the Peaks
    Sojourn in my Uncle Joe's ashram
    For when you're in Matlock Bath you don't need Sylvia Plath
    Not while they've got Mrs. Gibson's Jam
    Alas I'm brooding alone by the runnel
    While she's in Capri with her swain
    And the light at the end of the tunnel
    Is the light of an oncoming train
    Well we both grew up in Eyam and strange as it may seem
    Neither of us thought we'd ever leave
    But the beak in Leek is weak
    And she's moved in so to speak
    With featureless TV producer Steve
    And now it's all Eva Cassidy and aphids in Picardy
    And so I can only ascertain
    That the light at the end of the tunnel
    Is the light of an oncoming train
    No frills, handy for the hills, that's the way you spell New Mills
    Brooding alone by the runnel
    While she's in Capri with her swain
    And the light at the end of the tunnel
    Is the light of an oncoming train
    Is the light of an oncoming train
    Is the light of an oncoming
    Old time religion
    Gimme that old time religion
    Gimme that old time religion
    It's good enough for me.
     
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    I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
    It's got a basket, a bell that rings and
    Things to make it look good.
    I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
    You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
    I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things.
     
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    I am firmly against oppressive chip shop regimes! Great tune this

     
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    There's something solid forming in the air,
    The wall of death is lowered in Times Square.
    No-one seems to care,
    They carry on as if nothing was there.
    The wind is blowing harder now,
    Blowing dust into my eyes.
    The dust settles on my skin,
    Making a crust I cannot move in
    And I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway.

    Fly on a windshield from Genesis, Lamb lies down on Broadway 1974
     
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    One of my favourite albums, I saw them play the whole thing at Newcastle City Hall in 1974, Peter Gabriel left shortly after and they were never the same again.
     
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    Wilko - 20 Yards Behind

    If you see my baby walking I'm not walking by her side
    Ain't no need to look too far, because I won't be hard to find
    I'm walking twenty yards behind her 'cause I love the way she shakes her behind

    Everybody stops to see her, when my baby's out taking a stroll
    I see a traffic cop get flattened when a steam roller ran out of control
    But when my baby walked by he jumped up and shouted bless my soul, bless my soul

    There's so much confusion in the town when she's passing through
    All the cars are going backwards when the traffic lights change to blue
    I'm walking twenty yards behind her 'cause I'm frightened by the damage she'll do
     
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    Cum on Eileen, Oh I swear it's all clean, yes it's protein, you know every drop.
    I looked up your dress, oh my god what a mess
     
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    Itchy coo park mi thinks
     
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