Lumbered-Lonnie Donegan

[ti:Lumbered] [ar:Lonnie Donegan] [al:Rock Island Line - The Singles Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.29]There are lots of words that mean [00:01.96] [00:02.78]You've been landed in the cart [00:04.66] [00:05.73]But i've found a new one better than the rest [00:08.49] [00:10.86]It's a little word called lumbered [00:12.53] [00:13.55]And i speaks it from the 'eart [00:15.43] [00:16.37]When it comes to getting lumbered i'm the best [00:20.28] [00:24.58]I get l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered [00:27.91] [00:28.72]It's enough to drive a fella round the bend [00:31.62] [00:33.01]Once i found a four leafed clover [00:35.19]And a lorry ran me over [00:37.15]So you see i still got lumbered in me end [00:39.54] [00:40.95]Like the time i crossed a gypsy's palm with silver [00:44.31] [00:45.06]And she said 'there's a stranger in your life' [00:48.07] [00:49.03]I got l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered [00:52.38] [00:53.05]'Cos the stranger caught me with his wife [00:56.81]I get l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered [01:00.54] [01:01.38]Once i won two hundred thousand on the pools [01:04.59] [01:05.56]So i handed in me ticket [01:07.30] [01:07.82]Told the foreman where to stick it [01:09.88]And i told him that includes me bag of tools [01:12.71] [01:13.59]Then i bought meself an 'aase in monte carlo [01:16.54](ahem house) [01:17.73]I was putting on me suit to catch the boat [01:20.53] [01:21.69]When i found that i'd been well and truly lumbered [01:24.97] [01:25.57]'Cos the coupon was still in me coat [01:29.07] [01:29.77]If i ever get me hands upon the idiot who wrote [01:34.18]'Into every life a little rain must fall' [01:37.38] [01:38.16]I shall take his book of poems [01:40.54]And i'll stuff them up his throat [01:42.64]'Cos it seems to me as though i get it all [01:45.53] [01:46.41]I get l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered yeah [01:49.97] [01:50.53]And my luck with womengs just too rough for words [01:53.55] [01:54.77]On a foursome or a twosome [01:57.01]Guess who gets the one that's gruesome [01:59.10]Me address book's full of really ugly birds [02:02.00] [02:02.71]But one day i met a lovely little darling [02:06.22] [02:06.87]'Bout the only bit of luck i've ever had [02:10.88]I took her come to meet the family and got lumbered [02:14.18] [02:14.86]'Cos me darling ran off with me dad [02:18.78] [02:19.29]I get l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered [02:22.52] [02:23.35]And the latest lumber makes me want to spit [02:26.53] [02:27.46]I wrote newley a long letter [02:29.65]Saying why arengt pop songs better [02:31.85]He put music to it and it was a hit [02:34.59] [02:35.55]Everywhere i go i hear his flaming number [02:39.61]In the chinese his parade it's number ten [02:42.85](yen ten) [02:43.84]It's called 'l-u-m-b-e-r-e-d lumbered' [02:47.53]But i'm never gonna get never gonna get [02:49.96]Never never never gonna get never gonna get [02:51.96]Never never never gonna get lumbered again [02:58.48]Lumbered - Lonnie Donegan