Unisex Chip Shop ? Bill Bailey

Intro

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I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime.

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                                                                          The girl who 
there, she seemed happy,

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But I knew it was not what it seemed.

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"Do you want salt and vinegar?", was what they made her say,

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But in the language of the ghetto,

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That means, "Help, I'm a woman in chains"

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I wanted to free her.

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In my dreams I would see her.

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Running naked through the woods round Rainham,

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If I had some tigers I'd train them.

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To protect her

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From the sexual fascism that was lurking, round the gherkins

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Yeah

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I'd lean across the counter and we would talk,

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I carved the name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.

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But into the shop came a skinhead gang,

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They snatched the fork from my hand.

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Debbie, she looked at me, to assert my masculinity.

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I said "Oi!", they said "What?", I said "Nothing?
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