Ian Dury And The Blockheads - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards lyrics

Noel Coward was a charmer. As a writer he was brahma. Velvet jackets and pyjamas, "the gay divorce" and other dramas. There ain't half been some clever ba*tards (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 ba*tards (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders) There ain't half been some clever bas-tards. Einstein can't be cla**ed as witless. He claimed atoms were the littlest. When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness Frightened everybody sh**less There ain't half been some clever ba*tards. Probably got help from their mum (who had help from her mum). There ain't half been some clever ba*tards. Now that we've had some, Let's hope that there's lots more to come. There ain't half been some clever ba*tards (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 ba*tards (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders) There ain't half been some clever ba*tards (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders) There ain't half been some clever ba*tards (Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders) There ain't half been some clever........ ..................................ba*tards.