Ian Dury And The Blockheads Hey Hey Take Me Away Lyrics

Hey Hey Take Me Away Lyrics

(spoken)
What's all this spunk on the duckboards?
Come on Lawrence... come
on Lawrence...
Let's go out and have a prayer meeting
Take a chance with
our new shotgun
Hey! Come on Lawrence!
It's time we escaped again, my
son
Oi! Come on!

aaaaagh
Hey, hey, take me away I hate waking up
in this place
There's nutters in here who whistle and cheer 
When they're
watching a one-legged race
And a one-legged prefect gets me in bed 
Makes
me play with his dick
And One legged orderly is shouting the odds
Driving
me bloody well sick

When I get better, when I get strong
Will I be
alright in the head?
They're making me well, if they're caring for me
Why
do they boot me and punch me?
Why do they bash me and crunch me?
Some of
the counterpanes are pink and other ones are blue

Hey, hey, take me
away
From the ones that go mad every night
They're crazy and dangerous
one-legged sods
Who have to sit down when they bite
One-legged Peter who
knows bloody well
He's got worse ever since he came in
This other poor
cunt, he was born back-to-front
And he's always got stuff on his
chin

When I get better, when I get strong
Will I be alright in the
head?
Give me a sweet and accost me
I'll do what the fellas have lost
me
I know  it's brown 
And the walls have been scraped 
With blood
where someone hanged themself
I hope so!

Get it?

Hey, hey,
take me away
I'm the first to put last in the past
Take the handcuffs
away and please do what I say
'Cos I hate the untouchable cast
I want to
be normal in body and soul
And normal in thought, work and in deed
And
everyone here will whistle and cheer
And be happy to see me
succeed

Cheerful Charlie bless you
Now that I'm better, now that I'm
strong
Will I be alright in the head?
Grey worry lines in all my
designs
And life isn't rosy, it's red
As to why I wrote this song
I
ain't done nothing wrong, but I'm unhappy
Question: Do you blame your life
on life
And say it all began before the nappy?

Hey, hey, take me away

(REPEAT)