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Tailrace

from Tailrace EP by Theme Tune Boy

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TAILRACE

Well I'll never be the knobend in the red ferarri
I just quite fancied Italy away in Bari
a luxury though hardly stuff of kings and queens
but now that's all apparently beyond my means

aside from criticism of my carbon tank track
and borderline ability to pay the bank back
there'll soon be only two banks I'll have dealings with but -they're the rocky ones on either side of the forty foot.

so If I have a few bob gonna put it to the job
of putting smiles on this tired old face
coz you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace

How many more years living here in Luimni
before I'm shuffled down the road and up a Ringaskiddy chimney.
Scrape a few bucks just to break the ennui
and dispel the impression life's wasted on me.

Time is short and though I'm not a rich man
in any fiscal sense -though I've lived on sliced pan
and mushroom soup and enjoyed it greatly
and scarcely look like I've hungered lately

so If I have a few bob gonna put it to the job
of putting smiles on this tired old face
coz you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace
no you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace

(I have no guitar hero)

If I have a few bob gonna put it to the job
if I have a few pound gonna spread it all around
If I have few dollars going to drink some tall collars
If I have a few Euro I'll save something for the poor though

Conspicuous capitalists are telling me to tighten my belt if that's not a disgrace
when you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace.
no you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace
no you can't take it with you where I'm going
into the old Tailrace

You needn’t carve any stone for me
It’d cost a bomb for ye
reading as it would….
“A gentleman doesn’t tell
Which means I shouldn’t say
I no, nay, never knobbed any Naomis
But I did do a Dawn or two in the day”

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from Tailrace EP, track released October 10, 2010
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Theme Tune Boy Limerick, Ireland

TTB had his special powers revealed unto him in the days before youtube when all one had to help remember 70's kids shows was the power of memory,late night Bravo and Buckfast.
Armed only with the latter and a battered six string, he served up a near perfect (well -fairly close at any rate) rendition of the theme of H.R. Pufnstuff ...words, chords, the lot
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