Sweet Gene Vincent-Ian Dury/The Blockheads

[ti:Sweet Gene Vincent] [ar:Ian Dury] [al:Greatest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.95]Blue Gene baby [00:02.35] [00:17.43]Skinny white sailor the chances were slender [00:21.25]The beauties were brief [00:23.15] [00:25.18]Shall I mourn you decline with some thunderbird wine [00:29.75]And a black handkerchief [00:31.44] [00:33.53]I miss your sad Virginia whisper [00:39.35] [00:41.62]I miss the voice that called my heart [00:48.03] [00:51.69]Sweet Gene Vincent [00:56.89] [01:00.46]Young and old and gone [01:05.33] [01:08.89]Sweet Gene Vincent [01:14.27] [01:23.44]Who who who slapped John [01:25.27] [01:39.16]White face black shirt [01:40.55]White socks black shoes [01:42.07]Black hair white strat [01:43.63]Bled white died black [01:45.23]Sweet gene Vincent [01:47.22] [01:48.00]Let the blue cats roll tonight [01:49.87] [01:50.97]At the sock hop ball in the union hall [01:54.28]Where the bop is their delight [01:56.04] [01:57.16]Here come duck-tailed [01:58.33]Danny dragging Uncanny Annie [02:00.33]She's the one with the flying feet [02:02.34] [02:03.22]You can break the peace daddy sickle grease [02:06.76]The beat is reet complete [02:08.70] [02:09.66]And you jump back honey in the dungarees [02:12.34] [02:12.87]Tight sweater and a pony tail [02:14.73] [02:15.68]Will you guess her age [02:17.24]When she comes back stage [02:18.48] [02:19.02]The hoodlums bite their nails [02:20.92] [02:34.79]Black gloves white frost [02:36.12]Black crepe white lead [02:37.59]White sheet black knight [02:39.11]Jet black dead white [02:40.78]Sweet Gene Vincent [02:42.68] [02:43.67]There's one in every town [02:45.49] [02:46.55]And the devil drives 'till the hearse arrives [02:49.04] [02:49.62]And you lay that pistol down [02:51.67] [02:52.97]Sweet Gene Vincent [02:54.85] [02:55.75]There's nowhere left to hide [02:57.80] [02:58.81]With lazy skin and ash-tray eyes [03:02.06]A perforated pride [03:04.23] [03:17.48]So farewell mademoiselle Knickerbocker Hotel [03:20.00] [03:20.72]Farewell to money owed [03:22.35] [03:23.37]But when your leg still hurts and you need more shirts [03:26.72]You got to get back on the road [03:28.63]Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury