Frank Turner – Mr Richards (Ukulele)

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One fine day near the end of the tax year

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Mr Richards was gripped by a new fear

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Who would be at his retirement party

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And though he still had years to go before he

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Slipped over the edge of the workforce

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The question remained and in his wake there came an army

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What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?

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He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out

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And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out

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That's when his roof caved in

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And so he made a list of all the people he worked with

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And cut it down to the ones he got on with

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Paired each one off with the decade of his career

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And then he thought of all his friends from back home

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The crazies, the ladies, the lovers he'd known

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And then he looked around his office and wondered why he was still here

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What price creature comforts, what is this life really all about?

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He drew a line between work and living, and work was winning out

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And he worked for half his life, to spend the end just feeling tired out

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That's when he realised that he scrimped and saved all his precious days

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So he could buy icers and microwaves

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And he only looks forward to his holidays

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And it would be nice to have holiday homes and healthy bank statements and 

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fat little kids,

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And I guess you can be happy to dream all your dreams as camcorder records 

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of the things that you did,

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But as soon as your sleeping does it really matter what mattress you happen 

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to be sleeping on?

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As long as your living and your having fun; he always laughed at the

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drop-outs, that he could never live that way.

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But the truth is Mr Richards was a coward, he was afraid.

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Mr Richards decided on the very next morning

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To make his life and work the same thing

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Cleared he desk, he hit the road and he never retired.