Elvis Costello - Clubland Bass

[Intro]
 
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                             With a...
 
[Verse 1]
 
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handful of backhanders   and a bevy of beauty
 
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going off limits Going off duty  Going off the Going off with with
                                    rails                   booty
 
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     The tell tales of fiction found on  all the criminal types
 
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 Lead to a ranking   man or a     face with thin red stripes  The..
    higher
 
 
[Chorus]
 
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 boys next door, the mums and dads  New weds and nearly    Have you ever          in club...
                                             deads          been had
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  land                 in club land     There's a...
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
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 piece in  pocket   to do the dirty work                You've
  someone's
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 come to shoot   They've come to  do the jerk            They
 
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 They leave him  paradise they leave you half                The ladies' invit...
                              half way to bliss
 
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 ation  never  seemed like this           The
 
 
[Chorus]
 
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 boys next door, the mums and dads  New weds and nearly    Have you ever          in Club...
                                             deads          been had
 
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  land?       in Clubland
 
 
[Break]
 
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  The long arm of  slides up the    skirts of town
         the law            out..
 
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Meanwhile in Club land  they are ready to pull them down             Hey...
 
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                                                          The...
 
 
[Verse]
 
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 right to work is     in for the right to refuse admission
       traded
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Don't pass out now, no refund    find what you were missing       The
   there's             did you
 
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  crowd is taking  forty winks  minus ten                   You
                                      percent
 
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 barely get required sleep   lingering with contemptment
                     to go
 
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   Thursday to  Saturday     Money's gone already...
 
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Some things come in common these  hands and work  steady
                       days your          aren't
 
 
[Chorus]
 
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 boys next door, the mums and dads  new weds and nearly   Have you ever
                                             deads        been had in clubland....
 
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             in clubland                  in clubland                 in clubland
 
 
[Outro]
 
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