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Sheriff Fatman started out in business as a granny farmer
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he was infamous for fifteen minutes and he appeared in Panorama
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Then he somehow got himself on board The Starship Enterprise Allowance Scheme
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With a Prince of Wales award for pushing valium and amphetamines
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Now he's moving up onto second base behind Nicholas Van Wotsisface
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At six foot six and a hundred tons the undisputed king of the slums
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With more alias' than Klaus Barbie the master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
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Just about to take the stage the one and only hold the front page

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Fatman's got something to sell to the capital's homeless
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At The Crossroads Motelfor the no-fixed-abodeless
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Where you can live life in style you can sleep in a closet
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And if you flash him a smile he'll take your teeth as deposit


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There's bats in the belfry the windows are jammed
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The toilets ain't healthy and he don't give a damn
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he just chuckles and smiles and laughs like a madman,
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a born again Rachman Here comes Sheriff Fatman
	
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With his valium, amphetamines his sick notes and his phoney prescriptions
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And just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kitchen, 
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Dead legs and cracked heads Bunk-beds and breakfasts
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Wake up you sleepy headcases	check this
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Moving up now to take the place of Nicholas Van Wotsisface
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At six foot six and a hundred tons the undisputed king of the slums
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With more alias' than Klaus Barbie the master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
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In a hatchback from Notre Dame, the one and only Sheriff Fatman
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In goes another left hook and now I'm losing my patience
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Someone call up Roger Cook and The United Nations
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he's buying up houses for hasbeens (help me)
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From Lands End to Southend and Chelsea
	
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There's bats in the belfrey the windows are jammed
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The toilets ain't healthy he don't give a damn
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He just chuckles and smiles and laughs like a madman
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Ladies and gentlemen,I give you . . .
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SHERIFF FATMAN!

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