Poor Joey
Ian Dury

I'm Joey the Budgie, I'm a boy or a girl

I'm probably the most typical caged bird in the world

In Cranham or Hounslow I sit on my perch

Old Mother Nature's left me right in the lurch

This is my routine: first I ponder and peck

I look in the mirror and I shit on the deck

I try to fly, I bang my head

I think of something creative instead

I ruffle my feathers and have a good scratch

Spend at least half an hour trying to undo my catch

Not as though I want to be deleted by an owl

I've got to fight this awful situation somehow




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Poor Joey (who's a pretty boy then?)

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

Poor Joey

A bundle of joy then

Poor Joey (hello)

How the ruddy hell does she expect me to speak

With half a ton of cuttlefish stuck in my beak?

I go into a moody, disdainfully preen

And just to upset her, mutter something obscene

I appreciate the difficulties of owning a pet

Speaking as a budgie, it's like Russian Roulette

I was bred for the purpose and I shouldn't complain

I know you'll forgive me when I sing this refrain





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Poor Joey (everyone's a bastard)

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

Poor Joey

Every Christmas they try and get me plastered

Poor Joey (hello)

Joey the Budgie, I'm a boy or a girl

I'm probably the most typical caged bird in the world

In Cranham or Hounslow I sit on my perch

Old Mother Nature's left me right in the lurch

Poor Joey (who's a pretty boy then?)

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

Poor Joey

A bundle of joy then

Poor Joey (hello)

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

Poor Joey (who's a pretty boy then?)

Poor Joe (hello)

Poor Joey

Poor Joe

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  Apples   Apples (Demo)   Apples [*][Demo Version]   Billericay Dickie   Bit Of Kit   Blackmail Man   Blockheads   Blow [Instrumental] [Demo] [Bonus Track] [*][Instr...   Blow [Instrumental][Demo Version]   Bus Driversu2019 Prayer   Byline Browne   Cacka Boom   Clevor Trever   Common as Muck   Crippled With Nerves   Dance For The Screamers   Dance Little Rude Boy   Dance of the Crackpots   Dance of the Screamers   Delusions of Grandeur   Donu2019t Ask Me   Eugenius (you're A Genius)   Fly In The Ointment   Friends   Fucking Ada   Funky Disco Pops   Game On   Girls Watching   Have A Word   Heavy Living   Hey, Hey, Take Me Away   Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick   Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick [Bonus Track] [*]   Hit Me with Your Rythm Stick   Honeysuckle Highway   I Made Mary Cry [*][Demo Version]   I Want to Be Straight   If I Was With a Woman   Inbetweenies   Inbetweenies [Backing Track] [Demo] [Bonus Track] ...   Iu2019m Partial To Your Abracadabra   Jack Shit George   London Talking   Lonely Town   Looking For Harry   Lullaby For Francies   Mischief   My Old Man   No Such Thing As Love   Oh Mr Peanut   One Love   Pardon   Pc Honey   Percy The Poet   Peter the Painter   Plaistow Patricia   Poo-Poo In The Prawn   Profoundly in Love With Pandora   Quick Quick Slow   Quiet   Razzle in My Pocket   Really Glad You Came   Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3   Red Letter   Riding The Outskirts Of Fantasy   Rough Kids   Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll   Sink My Boats   Spasticus (Autisticus)   Spasticus Autisticus   Sweet Gene Vincent   Sweet Gene Vincent [*][Instrumental][Demo Version]   Sweet Gene Vincent [Live]   Take Me To The Cleaners   Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup   Tell Your Daddy   Thatu2019s Not All   The Body Song   The Call-Up   The Mumble Rumble and the Cocktail Rock   The Passing Show   The Right People   The Roadette Song   There Ainu2019t Half Been Some Clever Bastards   This Is What We Find   Trust Is A Must   Uncoolohol   Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy   Upminster Kid   Very Personal   Wait For Me   Waiting for Your Taxi   Wake Up and Make Love With Me   Wake Up and Make Love With Me [*][Demo Version]   Wake Up and Make Love with Me [Live]   What A Waste   What a Waste!   Your Horoscope   Youu2019ll See Glimpses   Youu2019re More Than Fair

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