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Eyebrows plucked and toenails cut,
I'll pick you up with a little luck, all prim and proper.
Shaven legs and calls to Fred,
It all depends o' alright then, I can not stop her.
The makeup box has always got,
Ever such a lot of odds and sods, in there to offer.
She needs paints to make her face,
And make her late again and again
So I'll knock her
The tick is tocker.
Mumbo jumbo words to say,
Are you coming out,
Coming out,
Coming out to play?
With a broken nose on a sunny day,
I would bet,
I would bet,
None of these girls would ever care,
Or get upset.
Or get upset.
Short and fat with a fishnet hat,
And a hungry cat in a nice new flat, with her Scrabble.
Sits by the phone when she's all alone,
And on her own it's a mental home, full of babble.
Writes with charm to uncle farm,
With a broken arm in a broken barn, feeds the cattle.
She hears the hens as she takes the pen,
And it's now and now it's then [and now and then a little arab friend],
She would saddle.
The dip is dabbled
Kissing curls and boyish girls,
For all the pearls in all the world, wouldn't have me.
If I had oil and money to spoil,
I'd mix with loyal and I get some royal, little lassie.
I'm up at nine down the line,
To watch the time 'till half past five.
I wish they'd sack me
She's at home the milkman's home
To have a farm and seeds to sow
It makes her happy
The chip is chappie.
I'll pick you up with a little luck, all prim and proper.
Shaven legs and calls to Fred,
It all depends o' alright then, I can not stop her.
The makeup box has always got,
Ever such a lot of odds and sods, in there to offer.
She needs paints to make her face,
And make her late again and again
So I'll knock her
The tick is tocker.
Mumbo jumbo words to say,
Are you coming out,
Coming out,
Coming out to play?
With a broken nose on a sunny day,
I would bet,
I would bet,
None of these girls would ever care,
Or get upset.
Or get upset.
And a hungry cat in a nice new flat, with her Scrabble.
Sits by the phone when she's all alone,
And on her own it's a mental home, full of babble.
Writes with charm to uncle farm,
With a broken arm in a broken barn, feeds the cattle.
She hears the hens as she takes the pen,
And it's now and now it's then [and now and then a little arab friend],
She would saddle.
The dip is dabbled
For all the pearls in all the world, wouldn't have me.
If I had oil and money to spoil,
I'd mix with loyal and I get some royal, little lassie.
I'm up at nine down the line,
To watch the time 'till half past five.
I wish they'd sack me
She's at home the milkman's home
To have a farm and seeds to sow
It makes her happy
The chip is chappie.
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This song is a great and overlooked gem on what I consider the best Squeeze album - East Side Story.
I'd understand it better if I knew more British slang. The first two verses are about two very different women. The first one being attractive, popular, and style conscious. The second one being a lonely homebody.
He's attracted to the first woman, is obsessed with her grooming, and wants to pick her up. She adds "tick to his tocker (slang for penis).
He doesn't offer much about the second woman, except that it seems she is close to her rural family. There's a line listed in here that's not on the album version - are there other versions? It's the one about the Arab friend which seems a double entendre.
The third verse is about a regular working class guy who feels excluded from the world of pretty women, as referred to in the first verse, and - I'd guess the boyish girls are like the woman in the second verse? In any case neither would have him.
If he were rich he'd have an attractive woman, but as it is he has a 9-5:30 job, which he hates, while his wife or partner is cheating on him during the day with the milkman.
It's got some cool lyrics and a great attitude, even if they don't all fit together coherently - it's a bit mumbo jumbo.
So that brings us to the chorus. The song lyrics aren't perfect, (it's got a broken nose) but since it's a sunny day, we should come out to play and enjoy this quintessentially Squeeze song. It's a banger!