Ladies and Gentlemen
Allow me to present myself to you
On this my first L.P. debut.
I still believe in Sunday as being a day of rest
And maybe it's because I'm an Irishman
That I like Dublin best
Still whose who are you to tell me I'm alright Fred
But don't let that worry your son
For when he grows up and gets blown out of here
Have yourself A-tomic bomb
Now introducing Maisie(Maisie) and on my right Will be
Both of whom are here now represented by
our good friend U.V.I.P.
Whose mundane conjectural I'd recommend
Only if you like rocking jazz
Intermingled with an ounce of U double K
full of eastern Raj Matazz
Close your eyes and the door don't forge-t
If you do I take it you know what to expect
(Break)
Still whose who are you to tell me I'm alright
Fred but don't let that worry your son
For when he grows up and gets blown out of here
Have yourself a (really)
Tour-de-force-a(yearly)
non-de-plume A-tomic bomb
Feeling tired one degree under Oh -
What you need is picking up so off you go
(Get picked up you know)
(Break)
Whose mundane conjectural I'd recommend
Only if you like rocking jazz
Intermingled with an ounce of U double K
Full of Eastern (promise)
Without a doubting (Thomas)
Polynesian Raj Matazz
1. I've only this to say to you know why
Good bye, bye bye
2. My loneliness endears it but so do I
Good bye, bye bye
3. You'd think by now that somehow
You'd have changed
Long range no change
4. Forget me now you know how I will you
Will you please do?
(Repeat 1st verse then Break and repeat last verse)
I don't know why
Sometimes I lie
Other times I tell the truth
Sometimes even out of spite
I'm uncouth
Oh Heave help our Linda
She's really done it now
What's more it's all so obvious
I mean her stomachs sticking out
If father tells me' mother
She's bound to have a fit
Followed by a neat convulsion
Thanks to our permissive twit
She thinks his name was Ronald
Or was it Sid or Len
The only thing thats certain
Is that it wasn't Bill or Ben
Our parish priest God bless him
The very reverend Father Pitt
Will no doubt be preaching sermons
To our dear Permissive Twit
By now the word
Will no doubt have been heard
By almost every bleeding nosy parker in our alley
all except that is
Our own great aunt Liz
Who I hear's been deaf since the day our Grace
recorded Sally, Sally, Sally
(Break)
Unless we raise the money
She'll have to let it out
What I mean is she will have to
Have it the right way wrong way about
In other words let nature
Take its course and do its bit
For the sake of those concerned with
Own dear permissive
Dear permissive twit
I've no wish to hurry you luv
But have you seen the time
It's quarter to ten and we're supposed to be there
At nine
I don't think the registrar
Will be very pleased
When we show up an hour late
Like two frozen peas
Both now facing for the first time
Presently and past
Something that begins with M
And ends in alas
More than not complete disaster
Even form the start
What could it be...
It's Matrimony
I know how you've dreamt about
Being walked down the aisle
But think of the money we'll save
And you'll see it's worthwhile
It won't please our mums and dads
But they don't even know,
Besides if they did what's the betting
They wouldn't even go
You and me are all that matters
Disregard the rest
Trust your soon to be old man
He knows what is best
Very shortly now there's going to be
An answer from you
Then one from me
That's matrimony
I'm truly grateful for the little things in life
That have made me so glad
Every other hour that I spend with you
Is not in the least bit sad
Quite the opposite in fact
And if you don't believe me
Here's the proof
Ask me if I and I'll say "Aye, I do"
(Break)
You and me are all that matters
Disregard the rest
Trust your soon to be old man
He knows what is best
Very shortly now there's going to be
An answer from you
Then one from me
That's matrimony
Marriage-the joining together of the two people
For better or for worse Till death them do part
Ole!
Oh no said I don't dare defy my word
Don't you impede my heart
Make my sight blurred
unless of course you feel
That confrontations are funny
Or sad with occasional sunny
Spells
You will be so intensely slow
But then
You've always been that way
Since I don't know when
However wouldn't it be
Rather nice if in some way
You could run with the minimum of effort a relay
I don't love you look down or above you
So why should I hesitate
Not letting out my independent air
That sweet aroma of contentment I implore
You not to ignore
Although I have to anyway
(Break)
However wouldn't it be
Rather nice if in some way
You could run with the minimum of effort a relay
I don't love you look down or above you
So why should I hesitate
Not letting out my independent air
That sweet aroma of contentment I implore
You not to ignore
Although I have to anyway
If I give up the seat I've been saving
To some elderly lady or man
Am I being a good boy
Am I your pride and joy
Mother please if your pleased say I am
And if while in the course of my duty
I perform an unfortunate take
Would you punish me so, unbelievably so
Never again will I make that mistake
This feeling inside me could never deny me
The right to be wrong if I choose
And this pleasure I get
From say winning a bet
Is to lose
When I'm drinking my Bonaparte Shandy
Eating more than enough apple pies
Will I glance at my screen and see real human beings strave to death
Right in front of my eyes
Nothing old, nothing new, nothing ventured
Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost,
Nothing further than proof nothing wilder than youth
Nothing physically, recklessly, hopelessly blind
Nothing I couldn't say
Nothing why 'cos today
Nothing rhymed
(Break)
This feeling inside me could never deny me
The right to be wrong if I choose,
And this pleasure I get
From say winning a bet
Is to lose
Nothing good, nothing bad, nothing ventured
Nothing gained, nothing still-born or lost,
Nothing further than proof nothing wilder than youth
Nothing physically, recklessly, hopelessly blind
Nothing I couldn't say
Nothing why 'cos today
Nothing rhymed
There is too much attention
Paid to people who believe
That the world we live in
Really isn't round
Yes there's too much attention
Paid to people just like me
Who'll confess their only aim in life
Is down
There is too much attention
As to where we all should be
And to how much we should know
Inside how long
Yes there's too much attention
And the reason I believe
Is because we are what we are right or wrong
So forgive me when I tell you
I ain't got no place to go
I ain't got no-one to talk to
Got no one left to say hello
(Break)
There is too much attention
Paid to him who shot at he
And to how he got away
But didn't quite
Yes there's too much attention
So much so that we'll believe
He's not guilty of the crime which he's
Being tried
So forgive me when I tell you
I ain't got no place to go
I ain't got no-one to talk to
Got no one left to say hello
In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?
(Break)
Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
Little Susan Van Heusen was present
When her father decided to play
Cat and mouse round the house with that peasant
Girl of a B good and maybe I will stay
For a while if you smile but remember
When my head is bowed
It is not because I am sad
Merely that old blue me
Getting me down
As you've guessed it was best that she rid her
Self from this an unfriendly affair
So without more to do than say dither
Suzi went over the hill and back again
I will go in a mo
But first you'd better book up cos I
Have no piece to perform
Have no role to play
Other than that one of me
Eaten by you
All the way through
Down to the last
Very last chew
(Break)
In the end so to speak it was easy
To suppose she would never return
Even though her old man tried repeatedly
Begging her to one and all aboard this plane
I repeat be discrete but remember
When my head is...
I used to sit and watch the stars
Especially old Jupiter and Mars
When my days were blue
But now those days are gone and still
If I did, I would, you know I will
Never feel the same
If I don't get you
Back Again
For who am I to who are you
To who are we Sir
If underneath there's nothing more
Than meets the eye
And if for that you think I'm crazy
Don't forget you once delayed me
Wonder why
(Break)
And who am I to who are you
To who are we Sir
When underneath there's nothing more
Than apple pie
A little sour perhaps, but one day
Given time perhaps in some way
We'll know why
To you I gave my everything
Plus of course my Autumn and my Spring
Oh and I won't half feel the pain
If I don't get you
If I don't get you
If I don't get you
If I don't get you
Back Again
There's people who believe
That what we're to receive
Is meant to happen anyway
Then there're those who'll admit
That they're literally scared stiff of it
No matter what you say
Then there are those who'll astound
By simply being around to play
Thunder and lightning ain't worth fighting
So lock yourself away or else face it all tonight
I was supposed to meet her at eight
Now I find it's gone eight
And I haven't done a thing
There's people all around me
People who have found me
Not very funny when I sing
A little song about the bad things
The weather can do
Thunder and lightning ain't worth fighting
So lock yourself away or else face it all tonight
People running everywhere
There's not a soul who'll stay out there
And I don't think there will be tonight
But we've got to accept what's right
(Break)
Thunder and lightning etc.
I'm trying hard to remember
Was it last November
When I got caught under a tree
I stood there like a fool
Without so much as a stool
That I could sit upon to comfort me
I shudder at the thought
Howerer I got out safely
Thunder and lightning etc...
Doctor in love who is above
All others close to you
Is it the Queen is it obscene
Tell me I want you to
Oh I've often wondered what it is that incites
So many young people to take part in those riots
Whereby all men in blue are the targets to destroy
Lady be good I wish you would
Meanwhile exclusively
Have I the right to print in spite
Of what your views would be
Concerning those matters of the utmost degree
The point being the question and the question being he
Who laughs first has a thirst to laugh longest
Has he?
Over there(over where)
Over there(over where)
On the wall(what wall)
The one in the hall(oh the hall)
I can see(we can see)
Well you could have fooled me
(Break)
Some take the attitude that life is a drag
They say and I quote "Man it just isn't our bag"
But if that's where it's at why the hell don't they go
Houdini said to get out of bed
Was the hardest thing he could do
Yet when he's tied strait-jacket plied
He's out at the count of two
It seems elementary my dear Watson I know
But think what would happen if for instance this show
That we're in should begin not one hour but
Two late
Over there(over where)
Over there(over where)
On the wall(what wall)
The one in the hall(oh the hall)
I can see(we can see)
Well you could have fooled me
I'm doing the best that I can
Hiding my head in my hands
Proving without a conclusion or doubt a great deal
More than you'll ever feel
I'm giving up all that I know
It's possible to do and so
Here's to your mother
Who though I loved no other than she
Take off that silly grin
Put back that double gin
You'll need it in the morning
If I leave you without warning
(Break)
I'm noticing words have been spoke
Since the day I began being broke
Now when I hear the smell
Of sweet damm all I shall tell you
Take off that silly grin
Put back that double gin
You'll need it in the morning
If I leave you withou warning
I'm doing the best that I can
Hiding my head in my hands
Feeling the pinch and yet
Somehow I can't forget you
It's over now you've had your fun
get up them stairs go on quickly
don't run
Take off your shoes the both of you's
leave them down outside the door turn the landing light off,
no wait, leave it on it might make the night that easier to be gone
and in the morning who'll be wide a wake and eating snow flakes as
opposed to those flakes. (We Will) We Will (We Will) We will
That afternoon we spend the day with uncle Frank (remember?) and
his wife auntie Mae well do you know since then I've recieved
up to four letters all of which repeat the same they say
Thrilled to bits can't believe you came we relived it both
over time and time again and if there's
even a chance or even half you might be our way
would you promise to stay (We will) We will (We will) We Will
Yeah..yeah..yeah
Oh its no easy pretending that you
cannot hear once you've suffered the reflections within
It's no use in an ending to proclaim from the start that the
moral of the stories to begin.
On Sunday next if the weather holds we'll have that game
but I bagsy-being-in-goal not because I'm good
or because I think I should it's just that well at
my age I think standing still would really suit me best
do we all agree?
hands up those who do hands up those who don't
I see well in that case will we please be kind enough if not
on Sunday to go to mass on Monday (We will) We will
(We will ) We will yeah yeah (We will)
Ladies and Gentlemen
And those of you who've spent money
Buying me
I'd like to thank you
I'd like to thank you
Thank you sincerely
Save it for your children
This love that you have got
Forget me now that I am sure
It's you that I want not
Save if for your loved
Ones who come to you each day
No matter what you do to them
They'll never have to say
That I don't love you any more
Still I don't care
Somebody else can love you more
I won't be there
Save it for another
Who's asking for your love
The only one who knows the truth
Will never know enough
Save it for the priest
Then who might one day say to you
"Do you take this man for your husband?"
Answer him "I do"
And you'll be happy
Just like I was when I left you
There's only one thing
Left for me to do forget you
And I will so help me
Ever if it means that I'll have to
Take a trip abroad
Where it's thought perhaps the change
Might do me good from you it should
Save it for the morning
That starts another day
If you have learnt your lesson
Someone else won't have to pay
Save it and remember
Your carefree days are through
No longer can you take somebody
And break his heart in two
For everyone knows
That you treated me unfair
Although I think about you inside me
I don't care anymore