Cheapskates

Album: Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)
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  • I have been a washer up
    An' he has been a scrubber up
    An' I seen him a picking up
    Dog ends in the rain
    An' he has never read a book
    Though I told him to take a look
    He lifted his pool hall cue
    For another game
    But it ain't no modern miracle
    That we found the golden rule
    What you can't buy you gotta steal
    An' what you say can't steal you better leave

    I don't like to hang about
    In this lonely room
    'Cause London is for going out
    And trying to hear a tune
    But people come pouncing up to me
    And say what are you doing here
    You're supposed to be a star
    Not a cheapskate bleeding queer

    Like a load of rats from a sinking ship
    You slag us down to save your hip
    But you don't give me the benefit
    Of your doubt
    'Cause I'll bite it off and spit it out

    We're cheapskates anything'll do
    We're cheapskates what are we supposed to do?
    An' we can rock
    Hey hey let's roll
    An' we can walk
    An' do the stroll

    Just because we're in a group
    You think we're stinking rich
    'N we all got model girls
    Shedding every stitch
    'N You think the cocaine's flowing
    Like a river up our noses
    'N every sea will part for us
    Like the red one did for Moses

    Well I hope you make it one day
    Just like you always said you would some day
    And I'll get out my money and make a bet
    That I'll be seein' you down the launderette Writer/s: JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, PAUL SIMONON, TOPPER HEADON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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