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I shout all my obscenities from steeples but please don't label me a madman

 I'm off to see the Bootleg Beatles as the bootleg Mark Chapman.

Cafe bars, idiots and pigeons - there's far too many in this town

 So me and ombudsman are gonna do what we can

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When the evening sun goes down.

 Yes some of my pullovers are roll-necked, it kind of breaks up the ennui

 But your experimental side project must have put ten years on me.

Opposite the Bannister & Shamrock - which used to be the Rose & Crown

 I like to play Pat Boone on the county bassoon

 When the evening sun goes dow-ow-ow-own

 When the evening sun goes down, get on down.

 When the evening sun, when the evening sun, when the evening sun goes down

 When the evening sun, when the evening sun, when the evening sun goes down.

There are questions in corners of my mind that lurk

 When the evening sun goes down

Like how do the road gritters get to work?

 When the evening sun goes down

Answer me that and you could win a cruise

 When the evening sun goes down

Here's Judy Tzuke to take us up to the news

 When the evening sun goes down.

Are these my ultimate pyjamas; is this my final dressing gown?

 I'm sending on this rhyme deep in injury time

 When the evening sun goes down, when the evening sun goes down,

 When the evening sun goes down.