...BLOCKHEADS... by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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*from 'New Boots and Panties!' (1977)*
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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You must have seen parties of Blockheads;
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With blotched and lagered skin.
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Blockheads with food particles in their teeth,
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What a horrible state they're in.
Verse 2:
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They've got womanly breasts under pale mauve vests,
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Shoes like dead pigs' noses.
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Cornflake packet jacket, catalogue trousers,
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A mouth what never closes.
Verse 3:
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You must have seen Blockheads in raucous teams,
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Dressed up after work.
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Who screw their poor old Eileens,
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Get sloshed and go berserk.
Verse 4:
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Rotary accessory watches,
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Hire-purchase, signet rings.
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A beauty to the bully boys,
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No lonely vestige clings.
Verse 5:
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Why bother at all about Blockheads?
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Why shouldn't they do as they please?
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You know if it came to a brainy game,
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You could baffle a Blockhead with ease.
Break:
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How would you like one,
Puffing and blowing in your ear-hole?
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Or pissing in your swimming pool?
Interlude:
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Verse 6:
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Bigger brained Blockheads often acquire;
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Black and orange cars.
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Premature ejaculation drivers,
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Their soft-top's got roll-bars.
Verse 7:
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"Fill her up", they say to Blockheads,
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"Go on, stick it where it hurts".
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Their shapeless haircuts don't enhance;
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Their ghastly patterned shirts.
Verse 8:
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Why bother at all about Blockheads,
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Su-perior as you are?
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You're thoughtful and kind,
With a well-stocked mind,
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A Blockhead can't think very far.
Break:
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Imagine finding one in your laundry basket,
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Banging nails in your big black dog.
Solo:
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Verse 9:
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Why bother at all about Blockheads?
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Why should you care what they do?
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'Cos after all is said and done;
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You're a Blockhead too.
Break:
(Instrumental):
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Outro:
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Blockheads, Blockheads,
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Blockheads, Blockheads,
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Blockheads, Blockheads,
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Blockheads, Blockheads.
(Repeat to Fade)
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
