TERRY KEEPS HIS CLIPS ON
(Vivian Stanshall)


Vivian Stanshall - 1975





Biking down the road (Terry keeps his clips on)
Good advice from dad (Always wear your clips, son)
Pity that he's dead (Buried with his clips on)

Terry is a clean young man
But next door think he's weird
His idiaminosyncraties are stranger than my beard
And if he's strange (He won't change, he won't change)

When he rides to work (Terry keeps his clips on)
Like any other bloke (Terry keeps his clips on)
Slaving at the bench (Terry keeps his clips on)
Quiet in the gents (Terry keeps his clips on)

(Instrumental Break)

Oh Terry, Oh Terry, why why why
Why don't you behave like normal people doodle-oodle-do
(Why, why, why)

When he goes to bed (Terry keeps his clips on)
More advice from dad (Only take your boots orf)
Bending for the soap (Terry keeps his clips on)
Afterwards a fag, Terry has a good cough

Terry is an upright chap
And seldom is he rude
Because he keeps his clips clamped on
He's never in the nude
And if that's strange (He won't change, he won't change)

Twenty-five hours a day (Terry keeps his clips on)
Any other way, no (Terry keeps his clips on)
Let me tell you why (Terry keeps his clips on)
As his dad would say (To stop those wasps and creepy crafties 
crawlin' up your trousers)

When he mows the grass (Terry keeps his clips on)
Protects his private parts, all the wasps can bzzzz off

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(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2015)