Friday fun 13

Ah, the bard of Salford in a Peel Session from 1978 (really, 1978, where does the time go?). The lyrics are below for the more poetically inclined...



make a date with the brassy brides of britain
the altogether ruder readers' wives
who put down their housework and their knitting
at the doorway to our dismal daily lives

the fablon top scenarios of passion
nipples peep through holes in leatherette
they seem to be saying in their fashion
'I'm freezing charlie - haven't ya finished yet?'

in latex pyjamas with bananas going ape
their identities are cunningly disguised
by a six-inch strip of insulation tape
strategically stuck across their eyes

cold flesh the colour of potatoes
in an instamatic living room of sin
all the required apparatus
too bad they couldn't het 'er head in

wives from inverness to inner london
prettiness and pimples co-exist
pictorially wife-swapping with someone
who's happily married to his wrist

LYRICS © JOHN COOPER CLARKE