Intro
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verse 1
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What possessed you to apply,
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Did your friends with good advice implode?
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We should hang you up in chains
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Let you rot beside the ill paved road.
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Born too late for the First World War;
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The Siege of Troy was long before my time.
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Naseby, Jutland, Agincourt; characters perhaps from pantomime.
verse 2
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Authors, sport, landlocked states; capitals of Europe and their size.
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Breeds of dog; famous dates, kind of hoping these things don’t arise.
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I don’t watch films in black and white
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The trees and clouds and birds have passed me by.
B
I’ll just guess and hope I’m right
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The first man into space was Captain Bligh.
BREAK
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Good luck back in work, they’ll’ve heard you were on
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Have you got the file for Mr Out In Round One?
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Harken a cuckoo - or is it a wren?
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Don’t ever darken our doorstep again..........
verse 3
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Truth is beauty, beauty truth, all you know on earth – all you need to know.
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Superb, succinct, pity then for you it’s not quite so.
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Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead? Duck soup, 1933.
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Words beginning with K N O,
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Words that end in B H E A D...........
OUTRO
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