The Winning Dream

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It's early Friday moening i was cycling into town
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The front wheel was wobbling and the mudguard hanging down
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The two legs of me trousers were tied up with bits of twine
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and the pension book was telling me a pint would soon be mine


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How ya, Mr Murphy? says the postal clerk to me
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Not too bad say I for a man at seventy three
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A fox came to me house last night and stole me only duck
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But a lottery tick she says "it might change yiour luck"

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I took the little girls advise and handed her a pound
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Outside I scratched the ticket with a penknife I had found
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Well I nearly dropped me trousers and grew a head of hair
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When I realised I was a bloody millionaire


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No more hay or turf to save, no more feeding calves
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One kick from my big boot and the bike was in two halves
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Well I headed for the local - sure I was feeling great
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And friends I never knew I had came in to celebrate

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Not long after that I had a new suit on me back
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A new red car outside the door and a telephone on the rack
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The wife was wearing a blonde wig where her grey head used to be
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And the wellington trcks had disappeared from just below her knee


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I sat down admiring the new dress that she wore
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A brand new set of teeth she got installed the day before
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Well I held her oh so tightly like when I was a Groom
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And we looked rich and graceful as we waltzed around trhe room

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But then I got an awful shock, I thought I neary died
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I spied me ugly missus as I opened up one eye
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with rollers in her old grey head, she nearly made me sick
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Get up and Milk the cows she said, you raving lunatic


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Twas then I realised that it was all a dream
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The cows were mooing in the fileds and the cat was at the cream
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Me bike was in the hedge and me trousers had a shine
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Twas lovely while it lasted, this winning dream of mine
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Twas lovely while it lasted, this winning dream of mine