Sweet Gene Vincent

Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Blue Gene baby



Skinny white sailor,

The chances were slender

The beauties were brief

Shall I mourn your decline

With some Thunderbird wine

And a black hankerchief?

I miss your sad Virginia whisper

I miss the voice that called my heart



Sweet Gene Vincent

Young and old and gone

Sweet Gene Vincent



Who, who, who slapped John?



White face, black shirt

White socks, black shoes

Black hair, white Strat

Bled white, died black



Sweet Gene Vincent

Let the blue roll tonight

At the sock hop ball in the Union Hall

Where the bop is their delight



Here come duck-tailed Danny

Dragging Uncanny Annie

She's tehone with the flying feet

You can break the peace

Daddy sickle grease

The beat is reet complete

And you jump back, honey

In the dungerees

Tight sweater and a pony tail

Will you guess her age

When she comes back stage?

The hoodlums bite thier nails



Black gloves, white frost

Black crepe, white lead

White sheet, black knight

Jet black, dead white



Sweet Gene Vincent

There's one in every town

And the devil drives

Till the hearse arrives

And you lay that pistol down



Sweet Gene Vincent

There's nowhere left to hide

With lazy skin and ash tray eyes

A perforated pride



So farewell mademoiselle,

Knickerbocker Hotel

Farewell to money owed

But when your leg still hurts

And you need more shirts

You got to get back on the road