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I'll Never Smile Again ~ Frank Sinatra

(I'd completely forgotten about the new assistant, let alone his name 🤣 But I checked back😁) it snappy!' I barked. 'She's not here right now, she popped out to do some sort of lady thing. She left me in charge,' said Clyde Piper. 'What do you mean, some kind of lady thing??!! Oh, never mind, look I'm stuck outside the Nail and Copper Pub. Can someone come and get me?' 'I don't drive and I don't know when Rosie will be back. Hang on, I'll ring the vicar and get him to pick you up.' 'NOOOOOOOO ....' But too late ...

I'll Be Seeing You ~ Billie Holliday

-may-care, that's me.' 'Get 'im outta 'ere or we'll giv 'im a stompin'!' A couple of the heavies threw me out and kicked me for good measure ... just when I thought I was making such good progress. I limped to the nearest pay phone (my mobile had been smashed and rendered useless) and riffled through my pocket for loose change. I extracted four screws, a handful of whiskas fishy crunchy delights, a half-eaten hobnob, a steak knife, one chopstick but no ...

From The Beginning ~ Emerson, Lake and Palmer

louts aren't backwards in coming forwards when it comes to dosh.' 'So, yor a bit ofa soft sonofa*beep*, are ya?' asked Gunner Stone, 45½, from Hackney. 'I wouldn't say that!' I said indignantly, 'why only last week I ...

From Now On ~ Supertramp

unfortunately, seemed to be lacking in my audience. I continued, 'Then he had the audacity ...cheek and gall like, (I suspected I'd been using too complex words) to dump a ton or more of cat litter at my front door! We had to use the back door for days! It was most inconvenient and we lost heaps of customers, not to mention the cats deciding that was now their litter box!' There were several muffled guffaws. 'Where'd ya find diz bozzo?' asked Wilfie. Thinking he was addressing me, I went on to describe the Vicar, 'Well ...

So do I, Niko. We've had quite a dry winter. We went away for a few days to a notoriously high rainfall area hoping for a good storm ... it was fine the whole time we were there. Meanwhile at home we had the heaviest rain for months 😏😂

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning ~ Gordon MacRae

It's Only a Paper Moon ~ Ella Fitzgerald

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at me suspiciously. 'D'own worry 'bout 'im. We got ow eye on 'im.' 'Tha's all verry well, but I ain't goin' inta my trubbles wid the bill wiv some complete stranga!' 'I'm no stranger to police involvement myself, I'll have you know!' I stated indignantly. 'Why, only the other day ...

(Oh) Pretty Woman ~ Roy Orbison

Help Me Make It Through the Night ~ Kris Kristofferson

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as we pulled in another Bowie song came on, Under Pressure, which seemed fitting. Walking in ahead of the others (they insisted I go first, I think they suspected I might leg it, which had definitely crossed my mind) I began to feel apprehensive. The patrons were of the dodgy variety and the way they were eyeing me up sent a ...

Life In the Fast Lane ~ The Eagles

'Shut yor face! You does nuthink but gab gab gab. Duz me 'ead in.' So out of consideration for his cranial challenges, I buttoned it. We'd been travelling for quite some time in the opposite direction to the Noose and Gallows, the pub that had been mentioned as our destination, and I began to feel nervous. But I felt I'd better ...

Anything Goes ~ Cole Porter

Heart and Soul ~ Bea Wain

I could lighten the mood, get on the right side of Smithy aka Twitch and thereby escape unharmed. He stared at me with a curiously menacing myopic glare. It didn't help that he also appeared to suffer from strabismus, and I wasn't sure which eye to focus on. I didn't remember him having this problem at school or in his teen years. Perhaps a knock on the head, which given his chosen career path, seemed a fairly likely scenario? I found his stare quite hypnotic, rather like a cobra about to strike. 'Oi dohn do 'appy, wats there to be bluddy 'appy about?' 'Well ...

Many Rivers To Cross ~ Annie Lennox

It's Only a Paper Moon ~ Ella Fitzgerald

at me myopically. He was very short-sighted and refused to wear glasses as he felt it ruined his image. He couldn't abide sticking a finger in his eye so contacts were out of the question. As a result he spent a lot of his life mistaking people's identities. Unfortunately for me, this was not one of those times. 'what made you ...