When [[bonny Clive]] was twenty three\\
he took a dive from the balcony\\
embarrassing his blushing bride\\
who took her red face for a ride\\
to [[Blackpool]] and the pouring rain\\
she went out on the evening train\\
and came in with the morning tide\\
as another seaside suicide\\
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It was summertime when Sally Clarke\\
suffered from a broken heart\\
that left her down and out of touch\\
the patron saint of nothing much\\
[[no charity, no faith, no hope]]\\
she'd seen it on her favourite soap\\
take fifty thousand million pills\\
and don't forget to pay the bills\\
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Well I remember Micky Doyle\\
[[he shuffled off this mortal coil]]\\
with no message for "that special girl"\\
just thank you and goodbye cruel world\\
then for the sake of [[Auld Lang Syne]]\\
he put his head on the railway line\\
looked up at the morning sun\\
and waited for the train to come\\
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The TV repossessed and so\\
I tune in to the radio\\
where the DJ's playing the same old songs\\
to [[whistle while you're signing on]]\\
[[give me the beat boy and free my soul]]\\
fill my pockets up with gold\\
I'll leave a message on the fridge\\
and drive my car off London Bridge\\
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But [[London Bridge is falling down]]\\
[[there ain't no gold in Silver town]]\\
so I'm cancelling my driving test\\
and [[walking back to happiness]]\\
whoop bye oh yeah yeah!\\
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[[Evrey time a church bell rings]]\\
another angel gets it's wings\\
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Trivia : According to Jim's Book this was the 1st Ever Carter Song played live - 6th August 1987 - The Astoria\\
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