| Early in the morning when I get out of bed
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| She says get up honey your eyes are really red
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| It’s those late nights that you’re keeping with your pals
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| She says get down to the pub, give me some ale
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| It’s the reason that I must get a job
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| She says look in the papers there’s something for you in there
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| It’s the reason that I feel it’s a sin
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| All the kids lining up, all the kids staying thin
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| It’s so hard
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| I see a ship and it is coming down the Thames
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| Up and down up and down here it comes again
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| In my binoculars the captain looks sweet
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| He has tattoos on his arm, and he’s really neat
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| It’s so hard
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| Down at the labour and there’s nothing for me
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| He has a cabin and he’s safe at sea
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| Stowaway tanker is something to he, it’s so hard
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| Meanwhile back in the kitchen there is something real dull
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| She is standing in her curlers and she’s ready to blow
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| A see thru apron round her waist and her thighs
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| She says give me one I say no
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| It’s too hard |