There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Noel Coward was a charmer.

As a writer he was brahma.

Velvet, jackets and pyjamas,

had a gay divorce and other dramas.



There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.



Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.

He must have been a pencil squeezer.

He didn't do the Mona Lisa,

That was an Italian geezer.



There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.



Einstein can't be classed as witless.

He claimed atoms were the littlest.

When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness

Frighten everybody shitless



There ain't half been some clever bastards.

Probably got help from their mum

(who had help from her mum).

There ain't half been some clever bastards.

Now that we've had some,

let's hope that there's lots more to come.



There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.



Okey-dokey!

Oh!

Segovia.

Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee

De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.



There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever bastards

(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)

There ain't half been some clever....bastards.