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I'm like a child in the sweet shop
When I'm propping up the bar
You call me a baby- a big big baby
How right you are.
They slapped my bare little buttocks
That was my first introduction to pain
They threw me out with the bath-water
I started life down the drain
Now the big baby wants his bottle
He's throwing his food through the air
Give the big baby his bottle
And you can stuff that teddy bear.

I'm short of life's little comforts
I get so short of breath
No one to mollycoddle me
So I spoil myself to death
No new life for this old bastard
Few birthdays to come
I wake in as foetal position
Sucking my dirty thumb.

Now the big baby wants his bottle
The way he used to want his Mam
Give the big baby his bottle
Before he gets out his pram.

I'm sick and tired of all these toys
I'm sick and tired of you
Don't you dare call me Diddums
Don't go coochy coochy coo
I'll start having one of my tantrums
I'll start screaming out for Mummy
All those years of tears between the womb and the tomb
With the bottle replacing the dummy
The big baby wants his bottle
He's no longer a tiny tot
Give the big baby his bottle
So he can sleep tight in his cot
So he can sleep tight in his cot.

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from The Worst Is Yet To Come (15 track playlist), released April 15, 2014

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Nigel Burch and the Flea-Pit Orchestra London, UK

'Flea-Pit Music' has been (intoxicating and) invigorating music fans for over a decade. Best described by The Guardian as “a cross between the music of Ian Dury, Brecht and Weil, an Irish pub band and a 1950s skiffle group. Songs of urban alienation with plenty of fierce, spontaneous playing", their original sound is personified by the dark social commentary of Burch's lyrics and vocals. ... more

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