I found it on Spotify and transcribed it. Since I don't have the actual album and its liner notes, I can't confirm that he wrote it. Oddly, even Watt Nicoll's own web site doesn't mention this song or the album it's from. How odd.


ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE
As recorded by Watt Nicoll on "Must Have Done Something Good" (2010)

Seems to me I've seen the show.
All the twists and the jokes I know.
The same old songs, they just change the key
But they all seem very old to me.

Have I been round the scene too long?
Could it be there are no new songs?
'Cause come the end and you shout "Encore!"
You're fools; it's all been done before.

And it's only for the children that the clown paints on a smile.
It's only the little ones that make the show worthwhile.
Peter Pan, Santa Claus—
The children love it just because
In us they see a brand-new show.
Don't ever let the children know
That it's all been done before.

The curtain's gone to rise today. [sic]
We've got the same old part to play,
The same old plot, the same old end,
And the villain's always the one he had thought was a friend;
But the children laugh; the children cry,
And the more they ask, the more we try.
We would sing and dance; we would even die,
But it's all been done before.

And it's only for the children that the clown paints on a smile.
It's only the little ones make the show worthwhile.
Peter Pan and Santa Claus—
The children love us, just because
In us they see a brand-new show.
Don't ever let the children know
That it's all been done before.