Have a Word - Ian Dury

Gotta sign the rent book

Gotta do the laundry

Then there’s the electric

The water and the gas

Haven’t stopped moaning

Since we had the phone in

The television rental

Another bloody hass

Go up to the top of a very high mountain

Go up to the top of a fresh air hill

You can never stop when the money is counting

Worry till you drop, till you pay your bills

Got a rotten head-ache

Ready for a breakdown

The pressure of the pressure

Is more than I can bare

The awfulness is spreading

It’s really done my head in

I think I’ve been selected

For more than my fair share

Go into the heart of the fresh air valley

Go and have a drink from the mountain stream

Go and have a word before you go doolally

Have a Dicky Bird with your self-esteem

Putting pen to paper

Applying for a loan

Ain’t got no collateral

Nor’s a cat in hell

The bailiff’s on the knocker

I’m going off my rocker

And as regards contentment

I haven’t had a smell

Go up to the top of a very high mountain

Go up to the top of a fresh air hill

You can never stop when the money is counting

Working till you drop, till you pay your bills

Go into the heart of the fresh air valley

Go and have a drink from the mountain stream

Go and have a word before you go doolally

Have a Dicky Bird with your self-esteem

Go up to the top of a very high mountain

Go up to the top of a fresh air hill

You can never stop when the money is counting

Worry till you drop, till you pay your bills

Go into the heart of the fresh air valley

Go and have a drink from the mountain stream

Go and have a word before you go doolally

Have a Dicky Bird with your self-esteem