The Fall - The Classical

Bourgeois Town

And your wife
And your settee
Don't want to be mistreated by neo-bourgeoisie
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town
Spread the news around

Open newspaper
What do I see
A politician with kids doing the best for me
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois blues
Spread the news around

Get on a bus
Keep head down
A DG gets on sits opposite like a clown
A bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town
I've got the bourgeois blues
Spread the news around

I've got the bourgeois blues
In a bourgeois town

And I go to park
For fresh air
I look around there's loads of beach bums and men with shaven hair
I've got the bourgeois blues
I've got the bourgeois blues
I'm in a bourgeois town
Spread the news around

I open mail
For letters from friends
Or maybe cheques
All I get is demands from the C.O. Exchequer
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois city
I've got the bourgeois blues
Spread the news around

Get on a train
To get out of town
Sat opposite a politician with his head held down
Walk back streets
To fresh air
I meet a journalist with no money for beer
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town
I'm in a bourgeois town



Credits
Writer(s): Desmond Dekker
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Other Album Tracks

  1. The Acute
  2. The Classical
  3. Hard Life in Country
  4. Psykick Danceball
  5. Sing Happy
  6. Bourgeois Town
  7. Solicitor in Studio
  8. Stepping Out
  9. And There In
  10. Totally Wired

All Album Tracks: The Classical >

Altri album

  1. Vault Of Impurity (Instrumental Version)
  2. Levitate
  3. The Fall: Series 3
  4. The Fall, Series 1-3
  5. The Fall, Series 3
  6. The Marshall Suite
  7. The Classical
  8. Wise Ol' Man (Edit) - Single
  9. Wise Ol' Man (Edit)
  10. Wise Ol' Man

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