I write, therefore I'm a writer.
(verse 1)
Lucky we were to live in the Nineteen Seventies
With singers like Noddy Holder we knew how to squeeze
There will never be music like that ever again
With songs like Sweet Talkin’ Woman and Gudby T’Jane
It is so sad that we will not get music like that
Again music it was much better then that’s a fact
And if you don’t believe me then just listen to Queen
The music in the Seventies was the best that’s been
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 2)
I’m sorry if I sound like an old man but it’s true
All you have to do is listen to Out Of The Blue
An album like that today it could never be made
No-one today can compare to ELO or Slade
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
You may say some of the music it was bubblegum
With songs like I Want You Back and Hey Fatty Bum Bum
I cannot deny that some of it was rather bad
But it’s better than Coldplay making you feel real sad
We had Blondie Kate Bush John Miles and Billy Joel
T Rex David Bowie and Mott The Hoople as well
The Seventies it was by far the greatest decade
Over and over again my 45s I played
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 1)
On dirty beds in filthy barns neglected donkeys sleep
Shallow breaths and wheezing coughs enough to make you weep
Suffocating stench of urine smell is overbearing
Beaten by evil owners who have no sense of caring
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 2)
Bearded Collie abused by its sick and evil owner
Fiendish beatings with clenched fists by its monstrous controller
Yelping dog in severe pain with no more strength to bark
Chained to a fence in the rain uncovered in the dark
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Chicken killed with crossbow as the vicious killer laughs
Why anybody would wish to do this I can’t grasp
Tiny kitten beaten tortured strangled punched and kicked
The evil bastard who did it gets his earhole clipped
A defenceless puppy beaten and dumped in the park
Left alone with no food and shelter in the cold dark
Bulldog dripping with blood after a vicious attack
Tell me is it so wrong to bring the death sentence back
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 1)
Lucky we were to live in the Nineteen Seventies
With singers like Noddy Holder we knew how to squeeze
There will never be music like that ever again
With songs like Sweet Talkin’ Woman and Gudby T’Jane
It is so sad that we will not get music like that
Again music it was much better then that’s a fact
And if you don’t believe me then just listen to Queen
The music in the Seventies was the best that’s been
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 2)
I’m sorry if I sound like an old man but it’s true
All you have to do is listen to Out Of The Blue
An album like that today it could never be made
No-one today can compare to ELO or Slade
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
You may say some of the music it was bubblegum
With songs like I Want You Back and Hey Fatty Bum Bum
I cannot deny that some of it was rather bad
But it’s better than Coldplay making you feel real sad
We had Blondie Kate Bush John Miles and Billy Joel
T Rex David Bowie and Mott The Hoople as well
The Seventies it was by far the greatest decade
Over and over again my 45s I played
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 1)
On dirty beds in filthy barns neglected donkeys sleep
Shallow breaths and wheezing coughs enough to make you weep
Suffocating stench of urine smell is overbearing
Beaten by evil owners who have no sense of caring
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 2)
Bearded Collie abused by its sick and evil owner
Fiendish beatings with clenched fists by its monstrous controller
Yelping dog in severe pain with no more strength to bark
Chained to a fence in the rain uncovered in the dark
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Chicken killed with crossbow as the vicious killer laughs
Why anybody would wish to do this I can’t grasp
Tiny kitten beaten tortured strangled punched and kicked
The evil bastard who did it gets his earhole clipped
A defenceless puppy beaten and dumped in the park
Left alone with no food and shelter in the cold dark
Bulldog dripping with blood after a vicious attack
Tell me is it so wrong to bring the death sentence back
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 1)
With you I want to see birds flying in skies of blue
Help all the animals to escape from the cruel zoo
Sit on the edge of a cliff and enjoy the clear view
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to gaze at the night sky full of stars
Fly to the moon and then fly to Jupiter and Mars
Visit every pub in town and drink in all the bars
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(verse 2)
With you I want to feed and take care of a shy fox
Leave a handwritten love note inside of your lunch box
Go to a very posh restaurant wearing odd socks
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to have a nice meal by candlelight
Poems like Carry On and Silence Is Golden write
Between two famous people guess who’d win in a fight
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
With you I want to have a nice picnic in the park
Stay out walking and doing nothing until it’s dark
Swim in the Pacific Ocean with a Great White Shark
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to have a relaxing foot massage
Assemble our family photos in a collage
Learn French with you and say to you j’adore la fromage
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(verse 1)
Rail tracks expand and they buckle
The old and the frail they struggle
Trains are forced to slow right down
Empty streets all over town
Waves of shimmering air rises
Vegetables rise in prices
Overhead power lines sag
Enough of it all we’ve had
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
(verse 2)
People stay indoors to escape
The heat for they don’t like to bake
Tyre blow outs they increase
Blood pressure tends to decrease
Bridges they are sprayed with water
Fruit and berries they get smaller
Tarmac it melts in the roads
When will it stop no-one knows
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Pub beer gardens they all pack out
We enjoy that without a doubt
Traffic gridlocks they get worse
Tempers they tend to get terse
Barbecues they fly off the shelves
People they tend to cool themselves
Down with a hand fan they’ve bought
Sunstroke again I have caught
People wear t-shirts and sandals
Voltage drops in solar panels
Office dress codes they collapse
The old take afternoon naps
No ice cream for miles and miles
In the supermarket aisles
Parks fill with lazy sunbathers
Weather it headlines the papers
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
(verse 1)
Clinking in his stained green trench coat there he goes again
Billy Bottlebank the happiest of drunken men
Pockets stuffed with empty beer bottles he staggers home
Nose as red as a big red balloon
Hi there Billy his neighbour says when she sees him there
Falling over the garden gate bottles everywhere
Drunk again Billy she says he says I am and then
He sings to himself a happy tune
(chorus)
Billy Bottlebank is happy in a drunken haze
Listen to him clinking as he walks
Billy Bottlebank he really loves his drunken days
He slurs his words whenever he talks
(verse 2)
He takes off his long stained green trench coat behind closed doors
He stumbles over the sofa and crawls on all fours
Around him the room it spins and spins around again
Curled up on the rug he goes to sleep
The empty bottles in his dream with beer they fill up
In his dream there is a massive vat of beer to sup
Drunk he is awake and drunk he is in drunken dreams
He is like this each and every week
(chorus)
Billy Bottlebank is happy in a drunken haze
Listen to him clinking as he walks
Billy Bottlebank he really loves his drunken days
He slurs his words whenever he talks
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Six hours later with a throbbing head he wakes up
There are plenty of bottles in his fridge he can sup
He opens one and another and then soon he is
Ready to go back outside again
Down the garden path he staggers to the garden gate
Mr Jones across the road he says drunk again mate
Yes I am Billy says with a smile upon his face
The happiest of all drunken men
(chorus)
Billy Bottlebank is happy in a drunken haze
Listen to him clinking as he walks
Billy Bottlebank he really loves his drunken days
He slurs his words whenever he talks
(verse 1)
Lucky we were to live in the Nineteen Seventies
With singers like Noddy Holder we knew how to squeeze
There will never be music like that ever again
With songs like Sweet Talkin’ Woman and Gudby T’Jane
It is so sad that we will not get music like that
Again music it was much better then that’s a fact
And if you don’t believe me then just listen to Queen
The music in the Seventies was the best that’s been
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 2)
I’m sorry if I sound like an old man but it’s true
All you have to do is listen to Out Of The Blue
An album like that today it could never be made
No-one today can compare to ELO or Slade
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
You may say some of the music it was bubblegum
With songs like I Want You Back and Hey Fatty Bum Bum
I cannot deny that some of it was rather bad
But it’s better than Coldplay making you feel real sad
We had Blondie Kate Bush John Miles and Billy Joel
T Rex David Bowie and Mott The Hoople as well
The Seventies it was by far the greatest decade
Over and over again my 45s I played
(chorus)
I close my eyes and I’m back in the Seventies
With my feather cut and platform shoes
I’m back on the stage with my happy memories
Singing along to All The Young Dudes
(verse 1)
On dirty beds in filthy barns neglected donkeys sleep
Shallow breaths and wheezing coughs enough to make you weep
Suffocating stench of urine smell is overbearing
Beaten by evil owners who have no sense of caring
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 2)
Bearded Collie abused by its sick and evil owner
Fiendish beatings with clenched fists by its monstrous controller
Yelping dog in severe pain with no more strength to bark
Chained to a fence in the rain uncovered in the dark
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Chicken killed with crossbow as the vicious killer laughs
Why anybody would wish to do this I can’t grasp
Tiny kitten beaten tortured strangled punched and kicked
The evil bastard who did it gets his earhole clipped
A defenceless puppy beaten and dumped in the park
Left alone with no food and shelter in the cold dark
Bulldog dripping with blood after a vicious attack
Tell me is it so wrong to bring the death sentence back
(chorus)
My heart breaks when I think of the pain and suffering
About animal cruelty I do not want to sing
How can this be happening in the world that I live in
Perpetrators of such evil crime there’s no forgiving
(verse 1)
With you I want to see birds flying in skies of blue
Help all the animals to escape from the cruel zoo
Sit on the edge of a cliff and enjoy the clear view
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to gaze at the night sky full of stars
Fly to the moon and then fly to Jupiter and Mars
Visit every pub in town and drink in all the bars
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(verse 2)
With you I want to feed and take care of a shy fox
Leave a handwritten love note inside of your lunch box
Go to a very posh restaurant wearing odd socks
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to have a nice meal by candlelight
Poems like Carry On and Silence Is Golden write
Between two famous people guess who’d win in a fight
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
With you I want to have a nice picnic in the park
Stay out walking and doing nothing until it’s dark
Swim in the Pacific Ocean with a Great White Shark
For my love I’m so in love with you
With you I want to have a relaxing foot massage
Assemble our family photos in a collage
Learn French with you and say to you j’adore la fromage
For my love I’m so in love with you
(chorus)
There are so many romantic things that I could do
And I would love to do all of them my love with you
With nobody else around nobody but us two
For my love I’m so in love with you
(verse 1)
Rail tracks expand and they buckle
The old and the frail they struggle
Trains are forced to slow right down
Empty streets all over town
Waves of shimmering air rises
Vegetables rise in prices
Overhead power lines sag
Enough of it all we’ve had
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
(verse 2)
People stay indoors to escape
The heat for they don’t like to bake
Tyre blow outs they increase
Blood pressure tends to decrease
Bridges they are sprayed with water
Fruit and berries they get smaller
Tarmac it melts in the roads
When will it stop no-one knows
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
(instrumental bridge)
(verse 3)
Pub beer gardens they all pack out
We enjoy that without a doubt
Traffic gridlocks they get worse
Tempers they tend to get terse
Barbecues they fly off the shelves
People they tend to cool themselves
Down with a hand fan they’ve bought
Sunstroke again I have caught
People wear t-shirts and sandals
Voltage drops in solar panels
Office dress codes they collapse
The old take afternoon naps
No ice cream for miles and miles
In the supermarket aisles
Parks fill with lazy sunbathers
Weather it headlines the papers
(chorus)
The way that we live all of us have to rearrange
Infrastructure nature and daily routines they change
Ourself from exhaustion all of us we have to save
All of this it happens in a heatwave
I write, therefore I'm a writer.
My comic strip characters have appeared in a number of publications in the UK and I have written for stand up comedians and greeting card companies. My spoof horoscopes have appeared in tabloid newspapers and on independent radio stations. I am currently self publishing pop music quiz books. I love all genres of music and have been writing lyrics since 2021. I write about whatever comes into my head. My favourite artistes are Morrissey and The Smiths, Bob Dylan, ELO and David Bowie.
To live without my Music would be impossible to do...The Beatles, The Kinks, The Jam, Roy Wood, Tom Jones, Pulp, James, Keane, Human League, Led Zeppelin, Bee Gees, Sex Pistols, Kate Bush, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Queen, Suede, The Cranberries, OMD, Ren, Simon & Garfunkel, ABBA, The Police, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Eminem, Elton John, Madness, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Soft Cell...
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