Ballad Of The Sulphate Strangler

A boy was born to Jack and Marge in 1951

And what is love is love is love

And what is done is done

The baby grew in size and rage beyond his normal years

And when there's blood on every page

The diary ends in tears

I won't forget the strangler, he's a lesson to us all

A knight in shining armour and nearly ten feet tall

I won't forget the strangler, he's the Bournemouth buckaroo

His friends will always weep for him and this I tell you true

I met him up in Finchley, the man from TFA

He drove a blood three-tonner containing LPA

He wore a thousand earrings and a diamond on his tooth

His multi-hued proboscis betrayed a stormy youth

The strangler on his roller skates was over six foot ten

He had a double set of documents in the names of other men

Been on the road or off the road a thousand times since then

I only wish there'd come a chance to do it all again

And I won't forget the strangler and nor will many more

Salute the mighty strangler, hear the mighty strangler roar

I won't forget the strangler, he's as volatile as wind

And if no one's getting loopy, then no one's getting chinned

Later in our saga we come to chapter two

Of Big Pete Rush the strangler, the Bournemouth buckaroo

We hit the road together, the blockheads and their crew

A gram of whizz, a drop of vodka, a can of special brew

From Spain to San Francisco we blazed a funky trail

With occasional disbursements to keep the strangler out of jail

When we got to New York City we had to let him go

'Cause the dramas going on backstage were better than the show

And I won't forget the strangler, at this point we drift apart

He said, "You placed a dagger now right in my strawberry tart"

All bound for death or glory and worth his weight in gold

When the devil made the strangler, he threw away the mould

These are the scars of the life that I lead

The veins are from drink and the nose is from speed

A stanin' off ear which had me well jeered

Do I get cut and do I not bleed?

Each purple patch upon my face

Shall rudely chart my fall from grace

I will not pass the loving cup

Until the patches all join up

Then Jenny came and told the news that Big Pete Rush had died

And me and Baxter were so sad it was a pity how we cried

The mighty sulphate strangler was the last one of his breed

Now he's gone away a three-tonner and he's looking out, godspeed

And I won't forget the strangler and nor will many more

Salute the mighty strangler, hear the mighty strangler roar

I won't forget the strangler, he's as volatile as wind

He takes the world's incumbents when it wasn't him who sinned

I won't forget the strangler, I wish he hadn't died

Now he's hanging out with Lennon across the great divide

I won't forget the strangler, he's worth his weight in gold

When the devil made the strangler, he threw away the mould

I won't forget the strangler

I won't forget the strangler

I won't forget the strangler

I won't forget the strangler