Tell Your Daddy
Ian Dury

Your daddy took one look at me and said

There goes Mr Evil with a bad hat on his head

He must be delinquent he wears such wicked clothes

Those shabby suits and big brown boots, there's danger in his pose

How can you love a man in gloves - a jailbird and a hound?

A scallywag, a reprobate - the devil I'll be bound

I know your daddy

Says I'm a baddy

'Cos I won't do what I'm told

But Jenny Dancer

You know the answer

I've shown you a heart of gold




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Your daddy never listens to a word

I can see he's bad now, daughter, don't be so absurd

He's got no finer feelings, he's the singer in a band

He's cold and hard with no regard - why can't you understand?

I know his type - a guttersnipe, he dresses like a thief

Devote yourself to him, my girl, things will come to grief

I know your daddy

Says I'm a baddy

'Cos I'm wild and fancy free

But Jenny Dancer

You know the answer

You have seen the good in me





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So tell your daddy

I'm not a baddy

Tell him just to wait and see

And Jenny Dancer

My sweet romancer

You can run away with me

Yes, you can run away with me

You can run away with me

You can run away with me

You can run away with me

(Run away, run away, run away)


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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   Poor Joey   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   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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