The Warmest Room

>From: amanda@xor.cis.brown.edu (Amanda Mathiesen)

>Subject: Re: Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room

In article <2sdd9k$b7p@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,

William Vaughan <wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

(Really creative lyrics deleted :))

OK, the actual lyrics, as he does them in the studio, are as

follows:

A A sus A A sus

A rainy afternoon

A A sus A A sus

Spent in the warmest room

She lay before me and said

D A Asus A A sus

"Yes it's true that I have seen some naked men"

As she made for the door

Leaving me on the floor

I wish I'd done biology

For an urge within me wanted to do it then

And here she comes again

And I'm sitting on my hands

And she sings to me that siren song

Here she comes again and I'm biting my lip

A A sus A Asus

But it won't be long

As Brother Barry said as he married Marion

The wife has three great attributes, Intelligence, a Swiss Army

knife and charm

But that's not enough some times

And she did speak her mind

And told them all that she believed

The only way to disarm is to disarm

I know people whose Idea of fun

Is throwing stones in the river in the afternoon sun

Oh let me be as free as them

Don't let her pass this way again

Instrumental, play chords to the verses

Though you cannot be blamed, but I've become inflamed

With thoughts of lust and thoughts of power

thoughts of love and thoughts of Chairman Mao

We have such little time at your place or mine

I can't wait till we take our blood tests

Oh baby, let's take our blood tests now

Chorus again, then

A A sus A A sus E A

It won't be long

Admittedly, what Uncle Bill says in concert is different. He tends

to substitute "hairy" for "naked" in verse one and "drugs tests" for

"blood tests" during gigs, as William judiciously notes.

"She said it was only a figment of speech..."