Giok, how about "forty pounds an hour"?

Yes, inflation is a big problem, especially in modern songs. I know someone who sings "Granny's old armchair": To my brother, it was found,/She had left a hundred pound, and the chair turns out to contain a thousand pounds or more. He tries to make it more contemporary by giving the siblings a thousand pounds and having ten thou in the chair, but it doesn't have the same impact: the original values work better again now. "The Sunday papers" was written by Barrie Roberts around 1970 and has a reference to a naval surplus gunsight/Plus postage, twelve and nine. (That's about 67 pence in Centigrade.) After decimalisation in 1972 he tried changing it to one-oh-nine, but it never really sounded right; and after a year or two (not to mention a decade or two) it was difficult to come up with a sum that would rhyme: better to go back to the original. (And it featured Brigitte Bardot, who has also suffered badly from inflation.)

Steve