Elvis Costello - Party Party LYRICS

Were gonna drink enough tonight to drown the average army

By new years day the next door neighbour will be goin barmy (yep,

Thats how its spelled)

The milkman arrives at midday with his usual wisecrack

Who knows a girl with wednesday legs so whens they gonna snap?

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Why does everybody have to be so hale and hearty

Cant they see were tryin to have a party party party party



The last thing I remember I was talkin to some fellas

Then she said shed have a word for me with her good-looking mate

And handed me a pint-pot filled with advocaat and tizer

And I woke up in the flowerbed fearing fertilizer



(I would have thought "feeling fertilizer" would make more sense, but

Maybe thats just me and my strange sense of humour!)



(note: advocaat is a dutch drink, sometimes described as the "dutch

Eggnog", tizer is a scottish drink (I think), it even has its own

Website: www.tizer.co.uk)



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Bridge:

So shift yourself and shake your bod

You got bullet proof insurance from fire, flood and act of god

You got to learn from your mistakes

When you got a face like last weeks cornflakes



The doors and the window frames are by pablo picasso

The party decorations owned by michelangelo

The fine music that you hear is by stravinsky

With overall design by leonardo davinci



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Bridge:

So shift yourself and shake your bod

You got bullet proof insurance from fire, flood and act of god

You got to learn from your mistakes

When you got a face like last weeks cornflakes



Two boys are upstairs in your bed

Three girls are downstairs cryin

The alka seltzer in the glass is roarin like a lion

You think youve aged 10 years tonight and still never been kissed

So you overdose on aftershave and try to slash your wrist



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