En el conocido sello Stiff Ian Dury y los Blockheads grabaron una serie de discos muy aprovechables dentro de la escena new wave. El inglés Dury nació el 12 de mayo de 1942 en la localidad de Upminster, Essex.
En su niñez sufrió la polio, hecho que condicionaría su físico. Después de terminar en el instituto, estudió arte y mientras daba clases de pintura decidió que dejaba el pincel, por lo menos profesionalmente, para intentar buscarse un hueco en la música.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
...THERE AIN'T HALF BEEN SOME CLEVER BASTARDS... by Ian Dury & The Blockheads ------------------------------------------------.............................
*Released 1978*
Intro:
Cmaj7Bm7Am7GD7 (x2), Daug
Verse 1:
GD7CD7GE7A7D7 Noel Coward was a charmer, as a writer, he was brahma. GD7CD7G Velvet jackets and py-jamas, the gay di-vorce, and other dramas.
Chorus 1:
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders), A7D There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Interlude:
DD/BD/AG, Daug
Verse 2:
GD7 Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers, CD7GE7A7D7 He must have been a pencil squeezer. GD7CD7G He didn't do the Mona Lisa; that was an Italian geezer.
Chorus 2:
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders), A7D There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Interlude:
DD/BD/AG, Daug
Verse 3:
GD7 Einstein can't be classed as witless; CD7GE7A7D7 He claimed atoms were the littlest. GD7CD7G When you did a bit of splittemness; frighten everybody shitless.
Chorus 3:
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards,
Cmaj7Bm7Am7GD7 Probably got help from their mum, (who had help from her mum).
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards,
Cmaj7Bm7Am7GD7 Now that we've had some, let's hope that there's lots more to come.
Chorus 4:
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders), A7D There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Interlude:
DD/BD/AG, Daug
Verse 4:
GD7 Okey-dokey! CD7 Oh! GE7A7D7 Se-govia. GD7 Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee, CD7G De dump di dump, de dump-dump-diddle lum-lee.
Chorus 5:
Ab7A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders), A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders). A7 There ain't half been some clever bastards, D (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders), A7 There ain't half been some clever... bastards!