Ian Dury: Hey, take me away

(spoken) What's all this spunk on the duckboards? Come on Lawrence... come on Lawrence... Let's go out and have a prayer meeting Take a chance with our new shotgun Hey! Come on Lawrence! It's time we escaped again, my son Oi! Come on! aaaaagh Hey, hey, take me away I hate waking up in this place There's nutters in here who whistle and cheer When they're watching a one-legged race And a one-legged prefect gets me in bed Makes me play with his dick And One legged orderly is shouting the odds Driving me bloody well sick When I get better, when I get strong Will I be alright in the head? They're making me well, if they're caring for me Why do they boot me and punch me? Why do they bash me and crunch me? Some of the counterpanes are pink and other ones are blue Hey, hey, take me away From the ones that go mad every night They're crazy and dangerous one-legged sods Who have to sit down when they bite One-legged Peter who knows bloody well He's got worse ever since he came in This other poor cunt, he was born back-to-front And he's always got stuff on his chin When I get better, when I get strong Will I be alright in the head? Give me a sweet and accost me I'll do what the fellas have lost me I know it's brown And the walls have been scraped With blood where someone hanged themself I hope so! Get it? Hey, hey, take me away I'm the first to put last in the past Take the handcuffs away and please do what I say 'Cos I hate the untouchable cast I want to be normal in body and soul And normal in thought, work and in deed And everyone here will whistle and cheer And be happy to see me succeed Cheerful Charlie bless you Now that I'm better, now that I'm strong Will I be alright in the head? Grey worry lines in all my designs And life isn't rosy, it's red As to why I wrote this song I ain't done nothing wrong, but I'm unhappy Question: Do you blame your life on life And say it all began before the nappy? Hey, hey, take me away (REPEAT)