Unisex Chip Shop Bill Bailey
Intro
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I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime.
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The girl who
there, she seemed happy,
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But I knew it was not what it seemed.
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"Do you want salt and vinegar?", was what they made her say,
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But in the language of the ghetto,
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That means, "Help, I'm a woman in chains"
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I wanted to free her.
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In my dreams I would see her.
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Running naked through the woods round Rainham,
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If I had some tigers I'd train them.
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To protect her
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From the sexual fascism that was lurking, round the gherkins
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I'd lean across the counter and we would talk,
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I carved the name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.
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But into the shop came a skinhead gang,
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They snatched the fork from my hand.
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Debbie, she looked at me, to assert my masculinity.
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I said "Oi!", they said "What?", I said "Nothing
