“Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3” was initially released as a single on 20 July 1979 with Common as Muck as the B-side. It is the last single to be released by Ian Dury and The Blockheads in their original line-up.
You might also like to watch my clip for Ian Dury’s You’ll see glimpses:
Many thanks to h2g2 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition for it’s article on the lyrics of this song
Clip by Rapunzzl
I do not claim to own the music, nor the images I used, I just put things together like this
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Lyrics:
Why don’t you get back into bed?, Why don’t you get back into bed
Why don’t you get back into bed?, Why don’t you get back into bed
Why don’t you get back into bed?, Why don’t you get back into bed
Why don’t you get back into bed?, Why don’t you get back into bed
Why don’t you get back into bed?, Why don’t you get back into bed
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good Golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley, add nanny goats
Eighteen-wheeler Scammels, Domineker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, F***y Smith and W***y
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 forty, no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of a parrot
A little drop of claret – anything that rocks
Elvis and his Scotty, the days when I ain’t spotty,
Sitting on the p***y, curing smallpox
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful – one, two, three
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses
Round or skinny bottoms
Take your mum to Paris, lighting up the chalice
Wee W***y Harris
Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Harpo, Groucho, Chico
Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motor sickle
Slap and tickle
W***y Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
Balabalabala and Volare
Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying ‘okey-dokey’, singalonga Smokey
Coming out of chokey
John Coltrane’s soprano, Adi Celantano
Bonar Colleano
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful – one, two, three
Yes, yes, dear, dear, perhaps next year
Or maybe even never
In which case …..
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful – one, two, three
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3)
Reasons to be Cheerful – one, two, three
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