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You were a curious child in your Mummy's high heels
Couldn't wait to fill our her shoes and underwear
You'd be a big girl - a grown-up
The future all sewn up
But hearts and bones get broken
It's a battlefield out there.

How many times does a man come along
Who's not a complete tosser or buffoon
Once in a blue bloody
Once in a blue bloody
Once in as blue bloody moon.

The diamond ring that he bought you
At the bottom of the Thames
He soon turned out to be just like all the rest
They're bastards one and all
With their brains in their balls
It seems with every penis
Comes a pervert and a pest.

How many times does a boy bang your gong
Make you shiver and shudder and swoon
Once in a blue bloody
Once in a blue bloody
Once in a blue bloody moon.

You can put on your war-paint
It's Saturday night
You sit in the kitchen licking out the bowl
Prince Charming's not knocking
You've laddered your stocking
You stick your little finger through the holes.

Let them scatter your ashes during Happy Hour
Let all of your boyfriends have as cheap laugh
They were all losers - they were users and abusers
One by one they led you up the garden path
How often does some bloke approach you
Who doesn't look like King Kong
Who doesn't make your heart sink like as lead balloon
Once in blue bloody
Once in a blue bloody
Once in a blue bloody moon.

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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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