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If I'm dead nobody told me
Thought I'd be the first to know
Is that why I'm so lifeless
With no get up and go
This is all so typical
What I've come to expect
Had a big win on the gee-gees
Now I can't go and collect.

If I'm dead nobody told me
Think there's been some mistake
I don't recall my funeral
My burial or wake
Am I just ashes in an urn
Is that what I've become
Just smoke up the chimney
Of some crematorium.

The butcher the baker
The candlestick maker
All end up in the hand of the undertaker
We're all equal in the good lord's eyes
I was happy and care free
I thought that's he'd spare me
Now some hack's writing my obituary
Following my sad sudden demise.

One sodding thing after another
Now I've gone and bloody died
Won't be easy to contact me
Here on the other side
But here's an end to woe and worry
No more will I fret and frown
They say that Death is Nature's way
Of telling you you should slow down.

My hair was thick and curly
I was taken too early
Am I going where the gates are pearly
Does a fate worse than death wait there for me
Lord my Saviour do us a favour
Forgive me for all my bad behaviour
Don't make me burn for all Eternity.

Will I be blessed in the next life
With good fortune and wealth
With my luck I'll probably be
Reincarnated as myself
But I'm pushing up the daisies
And I'm sleeping The Big Sleep
Shutting up and signing off now
You won't hear another peep.

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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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