Reasons to be cheerful

Posted on January 25 2016

Having posted Ben Phillips blog entitled Reasons to be Cheerful in the Fight Against Inequality I could not resist a bit of the great Ian Drury, so for no other reason this should lift your Monday morning:

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7 Responses

david says:

January 26 2016 at 12:07 am

Dury. What a Waste.
- John Carlisle says:
  
  January 26 2016 at 9:05 am
  
  Absolutely not a waste. Great man who ignores his disability, first rapper and great ironic arrangement. Look at the audience reactions – fun and joyous.
  Really brightened up my morning.
  Thanks
  - Richard Murphy says:
    
    January 26 2016 at 10:11 am
    
    Brilliant man, I agree
    
    Saw him once
Keith Fletcher says:

January 26 2016 at 11:52 am

No – What a Waste (great joke!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCKyX9BvEg
- Pilgrim Slight Return says:
  
  January 26 2016 at 3:07 pm
  
  Gosh, There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever B*****ds Keith!
  
  Noel Coward was a charmer
  As a writer he was Brahma
  Velvet, jackets and pajamas
  The gay divorcee and other dramas
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  There ain’t half been some clever bas-tards
  
  Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers
  He must have been a pencil squeezer
  He didn’t do the Mona Lisa
  That was an Italian geezer
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  There ain’t half been some clever bas-tards
  
  Einstein can’t be classed as witless
  He claimed atoms were the littlest
  When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
  Frighten everybody shitless
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  Probably got help from their mum
  (Who had help from her mum)
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  Now that we’ve had some
  Let’s hope that there’s lots more to come
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  There ain’t half been some clever bas-tards
  
  Okey-dokey
  Oh, Segovia
  Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
  De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
  There ain’t half been some clever bastards
  
  Ian Dury & The Blockheads – There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards Lyrics
  - Keith Fletcher says:
    
    January 26 2016 at 10:52 pm
    
    He had a real way with words did our Ian!
John Carlisle says:

January 27 2016 at 10:09 am

David
I owe you an apology.You were way ahead of me. We ex-Colonials suffer from an excess of literalness. Nevertheless still understand irony.