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Thread #168999 Message #4147237
Posted By: YorkshireYankee
13-Jul-22 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs of the Yorkshire Yankee
Nobody Coming to Hire Me
to the tune of Nobody Coming to Marry Me (a.k.a. "The Hedger & Ditcher Song")
New words ©Vikki Appleton Fielden (can't remember when I wrote this; maybe ten years ago...)
My father's a graphic designer
my mother does nothing but shop
I'm brilliant at media studies
But still I cannot get a job
Oh dear, what shall become of me
Oh dear, what shall I be
There's nobody coming to hire me
No-one to read my CV
I took 27 A-levels
I put them all on my CV
That ought to be bloody impressive
So what if I only passed three
I thought if I went to the Uni
and learned to sleep late and drink beer
That's all I would need for to find me
A well-paying, easy career
Oh, must I die on the dole
Oh dear, how shocking the thought
There's nobody coming to hire me
Surely it's not me own fault
But even tho I lack employment
And worked me poor fingers to bone
At end of the story I'm laughin'
Cos I'll never pay off me loan
Folkie verse:
My father's a mandolin player
my mother does nothing but sing
I've got a degree in folk music
So why does the phone never ring
Oh dear, what shall become of us
Why can't we make it big
There's nobody coming to hire us
No-one to give us a gig