Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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mind if fifty thousand yobos pick me up
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Outside a football ground on
a Saturday afternoon
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I'll still come out fighting,
do you know why?
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I'm the lowest common denominator
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And this is all about your culture,
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so welcome to jolly Ol' England
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I'm the stand up comic
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Jack the lad has become Oscar Wilde
the schmooze of the week
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And anyone who says different
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is a fuckin' antique
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And Noel Coward has become very
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"Bullocks" and everybody
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laughs and that's that
Verse 3
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But the little bit that was
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was all that we had
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and we all belch back
Verse 4
And that's that
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Jack the lad has become Fancy Dan
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ture with a rub on tan
got savior faire
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And the working class hero's
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got a tinted hair
they all shout
(Queer)
Verse 5
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But the little bit that was
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was all that we had
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And now the clown does a fart
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and we all fart back
And that's that
Verse 6
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Stand up, stand up ,
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can you hear me at the back?
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All you white boys standing in a row
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And the com ic shouts
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and we all shout back
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"Follow", so we go
Verse 7
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Stand up, stand up ,
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can you hear me at the back?
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All you white boys standing in a row
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And the comic shouts
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and we all shout back
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And the mob says, "Follow",
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so we go and that's that
Verse 8
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What do you think of it so far?
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I knew you'd say that
You've been watching too
much television
Together now
Verse 9
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Jack the lad has become Oscar Wilde
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And the followers of style say
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it's the latest thing
the schmooze of the week
different is an antique
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And Noel Coward has become very odd and
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the comic says
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"Bollocks" and everybody
Verse 10
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never has been
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But the little bit that was
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was all that we had
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And the clown does a belch
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and we all belch back
And that's that, all together now
Verse 11
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Stand up, stand up ,
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can you hear me at the back?
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All you white boys standing in a row
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And the com ic shouts
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and we all shout back
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And the mob says, "Follow", so we go
Verse 12
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Stand up, stand up ,
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can you hear me at the back?
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All you white boys standing in a row
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And the com ic shouts and
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we all shout back
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And the mob says, "Follow",
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so we go and that's that
Verse 13
you're welcome
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To join me if you like but
I know you won't
You've all been watching
too much television
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Well, I'll be in the public bar,
minding my own business
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