Well, here's a song I've written specifically for you Who sit in the audience and talk through all I do I cannot understand it cause I'm pretty good, you see So there must be something wrong with you, there's nothing wrong with me You're a bloody rotten audience whilst I am very good If brains were made of oak and ash then you'd have balsa wood I'm ethnic and authentic and I'm really full of class While you're ignorant, you're cultureless, you're philistines en masse I'm an artist and authority on music and what's more I'm incrеdible informative on folksong and folklore I'm a wondеrful performer and so you all must be So bloody thick and stupid not to like the like of me I'm a folkie and that's obvious, you can tell it by me clothes And when I sing traditional, I sing it through me nose And if you insist on talking everytime I sing a song I'll fix you with 'Bold Robin Hood', that's eighty verses long And when I sing contemporary, my heart and soul is pure I must be bloody brilliant, cause my writing's so obscure My hero's Leonard Cohen, I dig him perfectly But I must be so much better, cause no-one here digs me But now I'm going to leave you, cause I feel I'm wasting time Couldn't possibly be wasting yours, so you must be wasting mine And let me tell you now that I'm not out here for me health So if you don't come and pull with me, I'll go and pull meself You're a bloody rotten audience whilst I am very good If brains were made of oak and ash then you'd have balsa wood I'm ethnic and authentic and I'm really full of class But underneath it all I'm just a pain in the flipping ass
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