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lyrics

The country I live in is called the UK

Nice enough to live in if you got a place to stay

But until the day I know where I'm gonna be keeping

This same old dull programme just keeps on repeating

The landlords must have too much money

cos it's offered up to them but all the can say is

No housing benefit, smokers no pets

No children no sharing no DSS

If you want to rent it you better forget it

No housing benefit smokers or pets, no.


In the place that I live it's a crying shame

they turned the whole thing over to one great board game

If you can raise a deposit you can ride the boom

And sulk through the bust though you've still got a room

But their bedsit's too small for the cash to fit in

cos when it's offered up to them, all they can think is

No housing benefit, smokers no pets...


..Put yourself on a plate but they'll turn you away


I ain't big or clever, just trying to put in song

The way we got it in this country, we got it all wrong

And while it's given away before the works even done

There's still some of us with two homes, some of us with none

Maybe we're too good for their poxy holes

And they're just saving the guilt from burying their souls by saying

No housing benefit, smokers no pets...

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from Here the brute harpies make their nests, released August 1, 2009
Words and music by Julian Gaskell ©2008


JG – vocals, electric guitar, washboard

DP – acoustic guitar

TS – upright bass, vocals

RP – drums

KJ – hammond organ

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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