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Thread #61540   Message #990954
Posted By: GUEST,Cookieless Dead Horse
26-Jul-03 - 02:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: comic song about plastic pubs (Public Bar
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BAR IT SMELLED MALODOROUS
Here's one I made earlier -
Tune: The Larks They Sang Melodious (or whatever)

THE BAR IT SMELLED MALODOROUS   

As I went a-walking one evening last week
I popped into my local, a pint for to seek
But the pub had been taken over, by a brewery far away
And they'd changed the old Evening Star - to The Dawning Of The Day
And they'd changed the old Evening Star
And they'd changed the old Evening Star
And they'd changed the old Evening Star - to The Dawning Of The Day

I ploughed through the new carpet to the stainless steel bar
I stood by the potted palm as I ordered a jar
Now the barmaid she was topless, and so was the beer
And the price it had gone up me boys, it was now twice as dear

The juke box and the pinball were one side of the room
And the one arm-ed bandit, it played a merry tune
While the brass plated plastic fire was switched off at the main
And the bar stool I was sitting on, it was simulated cane

The back room was a restaurant serving Indian and Bolognese
While the curry and the Parmesan, set up a permanent haze
With extractors in the kitchen tried to take the smell away
But the bar it smelled malodorous at The Dawning Of The Day

Over in the corner where the dartboard had been
Was a bright pink, self selection, three flavour condom machine
And where once the hand pumps had stood, now only lager was strewn
And if never I return again, it will be too bloody soon !
And if never I return again. And if never I return again
And if never I return again, it will be too bloody soon !