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Tedious people, tiresome town under the gaze of the mayoral frown
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Always calm with a gentle breeze - Tarkus in black vinyl please.
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What would you do?
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If the sexton's wife from the best kept village nearby came running
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With bells round her neck and said
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You'd better move away, tomorrow or today
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'Cos when the owl starts laughing we will all fall down
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There's an outbreak of Vitas Gerulaitis on the way.
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Why it's Mr Kowalski - it was you all along
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That ski lodge would have been mine if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
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But what can you do?
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When your mum's in Rampton bouncing off the walls
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And singing 'Who's afraid of Virginia Wade?'
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Why do that today when you can always put it off until tomorrow?
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Was our motto, subsequently engraved on a plaque
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As a reminder of the attack of Vitas Gerulaitis.
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We all fall down, we all fall down,
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We all fall down, we all fall down,
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Who's afraid of Virginia Wade?
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Who's afraid of Virginia Wade?
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An outbreak of Vitas Gerulaitis in the town
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In the town, in the town, in the town
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We all fall down.