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Declan, Put Your Dancing Shoes On

from The Benefits Of A Downhill Paper Round by The Ragamuffins

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lyrics

Declan put your dancing shoes on
Arthur grab your spade
Cos Judy's sitting pretty at the top of the hit parade

Ronald's looking nervous
With a glass of diet Coke
He was asked to share a memory
But thought "is this some sort of joke?"

Here we go again
You're changing history completely
It's a mystery how you lot ran the world

Mark was having trouble getting back from overseas
Guess there's a family reputation for bringing countries to their knees
And Lizzy's looking pleased
At tying her colours to the mast
Well she was shaking hands with tyrants in the not-too-distant past

Here we go again
You're changing history completely
It's a mystery how you lot ran the world
Here we go again
You're changing history completely
It's a mystery how you lot ran the world

Oh decisions, decisions, decisions
You made with such arrogant precision
Wiping communities away
And as all of the dignitaries start to weep
The company that you used to keep
Says more than words could ever say

"Sir" Norman counts his lucky stars
And Bernard starts to sweat
Because cover-ups don't write themselves
And you're not off the hook just yet
So Declan, put your dancing shoes on
This dog's had her day
And George don't spare the tissues to wipe those crocodile tears away

Here we go again
You're changing history completely
It's a mystery how you lot ran the world
Here we go again
You're changing history completely
It's a mystery how you lot ran the world

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from The Benefits Of A Downhill Paper Round, released December 16, 2013

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