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Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

June 23, 2008 By Ellen

Showing my age with a dollop of Ian Dury here, I just wanted to say that while the previous entry is necessarily bleak I am not wading through the Slough of Despond.
I have many, many causes to be thankful from the Boys and the Panther through my fabulous friends and family to health and wealth via sunshine and birdsong.
So, ponder life’s rich tapestry with a dose of good-reason-for-things-in-the-end optimism and some vintage Blockheads…






Why don’t you get back into bed


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Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats


18-wheeler Scammels, Domenecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats


A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You’re welcome, we can spare it – yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 – no electric shocks


The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret – anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain’t spotty,
Sitting on the potty – curing smallpox


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Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
round or skinny bottoms


Take your mum to paris
lighting up the chalice
wee willy harris


Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Harpo, Groucho, Chico


Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
balabalabala and Volare


Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying hokey-dokey, singalonga Smokey
Coming out of chokey


John Coltrane’s soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar Colleano


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Yes yes
dear dear
perhaps next year
or maybe even never


in which case


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Filed Under: Ian Dury, Reasons to be cheerful, Something happened in my life

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