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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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Not steady enough for the office |
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Not hard enough for the hod |
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You'd rather be riding your Norton |
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Or going fishing with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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When your grammar school days were over |
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It was nineteen-seventeen |
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And you did the right and proper thing |
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You were just eighteen |
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You were never mentioned in dispatches |
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You never mentioned what you did or saw |
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You were just another keen young man |
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In the mud and stink of war |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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Not steady enough for the office |
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Not hard enough for the hod |
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You'd rather be singing the Pirate King |
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Or going fishing with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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You came home from the Great War |
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With the pips of a captain's rank |
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A German officer's Luger |
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And no money in the bank |
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Your family sent you down in the coal mine |
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To learn to be captain there |
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But you didn't stand it very long |
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You needed the light and the air |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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Not steady enough for the office |
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Not hard enough for the hod |
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You'd rather be watching performers fly |
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Or fishing with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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When the second war came along |
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You knew what should be done |
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You would re-enlist to teach young men |
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The booby trap and the gun |
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And they sent you home to Yorkshire |
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With a crew and a Lewis gun |
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So you could save your seaside town |
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From the bombers of the Hun |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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Not steady enough for the office |
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Not hard enough for the hod |
| [02:37.70] |
You'd rather be finding the nightjar's nest |
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Going fishing with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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And when my mother came to your door |
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With a baby in her arm |
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Her big hurt boy just nine years old |
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Trying to keep her from harm |
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If you had been a practical man |
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You would have been forewarned |
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You would have seen that it never could work |
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And I would have never been born |
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Never Any Good - Martin Simpson |
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There's no proper work in your seaside town |
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So you come here looking for a job |
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You were storeman at the power station |
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Just before I came along |
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Nobody talked about how you quit |
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But I know that's what you did |
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My mother said you were a selfish man |
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And I was your selfish kid |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
| [04:07.37] |
Not steady enough for the office |
| [04:10.51] |
Not hard enough for the hod |
| [04:13.59] |
And your Norton it was soon gone |
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Along with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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You showed me eyebright in the hedgerow |
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Speedwell and travellers joy |
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You showed me how to use my eyes |
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When I was just a boy |
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And you taught me how to love a song |
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And all you knew of nature's ways |
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The greatest gifts I have ever known |
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And I use them every day |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
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Not steady enough for the office maybe |
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Not hard enough for the hod |
| [05:01.54] |
You'd rather be riding your Norton |
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Or going fishing with your split cane rod |
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You were never any good with money |
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You couldn't even hold a job |
