Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 Lyrics
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
Why don't you get back into bed?
1, 2, 3
Good golly, Miss Molly and boats
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
All other mammals plus equal votes
Being rather silly and porridge oats
You're welcome we can spare it, yellow socks
Going on forty no electric shocks
A little drop of claret, anything that rocks
Sitting on a potty, curing smallpox
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three
Round or skinny bottoms
Wee Willie Harris
Harpo Groucho Chico
Slap and tickle
Balla, balla, balla and Volare
Being in my nuddy
Coming out of chokie
Bonar Colleano
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three
Perhaps next year
Or maybe even now
In which case
Balla, balla, balla and Volare
Being in my nuddy
Coming out a chokie
Bonar Colleano
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, part three
Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three
I don't mind, don't mind, don't mind, don't mind
As much as I liked "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" to have bought the 12" single version, "Reasons to be Cheerful, pt. 3" on the other side was really the one I end up playing most often. I love how the chorus cheerlfully counts of f (ideally) in 3s those crazy, irreverent, and sometimes unappealing references to popular culture, classical literature and even some reference to forms of torture in verses where Dury recites them all in a deadpan hip-hip litany that makes the whole mess deliciously infective in it s grooves and is wicked funny yet clever to boot. Like New Wave and Album Rock standard, "Sex and Drugs and Rock-n-Roll", pairing statements about popular culture with deep thought s hidden in nonsense rhymes then wrapped up in catchy dance tunes seems to be an Ian Dury and the Blockheads' trademark that nobody is worring about since they do it really really well.
But, what are the first two reasons...?