Give'em Enough Rope

I have been a washer up An' he has been a scrubber up An' I seen him a picking up Dog ends in the rain An' he has never read a book Though I told him to take a look He lifted his poolhall cue For another game But it ain't no modern miracle That we fo

Hanging about down the Market Street I spent a lot of time on my feet When I saw some passing yobbos We did chance to speak I knew how to sing, you know And they knew how to pose And one of them had a Les Paul Heart attack machine All the young punks

when johnny comes marching home again he's coming by bus or underground a woman's eye will shed a tear to see his face so beaten in fear an' it was just around the corner in the english civil war it was still at the stage of clubs and fists when that

we met when we were in school never took no shit from no one, we weren't fools the teacher says we're dumb we're only having fun we piss on everyone in the classroom when we got thrown out i left without much fuss an' weekends we'd go dancing down st