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  In the town where I was born lived a man who went to work
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And he told us of his life building spaceships on forty pounds a week.
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And he'd take us all for rides, and we'd do some serious drugs in
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On board the Enterprise Allowance we could do whatever we liked.
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And we could go to a Meadowlark Lemon seminar,
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Be at the Tony Monopoly incident,
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Sort a strobe for Connie Plank, 
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Shop around with Johnny Kwango.
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If you would come with me to Dawlish
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I'd be like Stadler's caddy for ya.
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And we'd return in time for tea and our dads would not have inklings
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Said we'd been to organise a frisbee competition
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With the Gypsies down the road.
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D'ya wanna swap a hundred spandex overcoats
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For the mental age of a haversack
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It's been like this since we saw PragVEC at the Melkweg.
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Oh I doctored my edible thong with listeria
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Now my only hope is that your offspring walks backwards
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Just as I expected the shopkeeper appeared
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And then the band began to play.