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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Dury. What a Waste.
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
Brilliant man, I agree
Saw him once
No – What a Waste (great joke!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCKyX9BvEg
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
He had a real way with words did our Ian!
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.