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My Daughter's Got a Boyfriend

from Middle Class White Boy Blues by Andrew London

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The generation gap

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1.
My Daughter’s got a boyfriend, not particularly blessed
with intellect, it seems he still has trouble getting dressed
His trouser legs are frayed, he wears them half way down his bum
Sometimes we yell out ‘Fire’ just to watch him try and run
‘Try harder, Dear’ my wife says; ‘Try bonding with this lout’
So I loosen up my belt and let my Y-fronts flap about.
My daughter’s got a boyfriend and we like to shoot the breeze
Two good old home boys rapping with our trousers round our knees.

2.
My Daughter’s got a boyfriend and he speaks a strange argot
a peculiar sort of English, not a dialect I know
‘Yo, ‘ssup’ he says, and I agree the interest rate is high
and I offer him a drink he seems a chatty sort of guy
‘Rad’ he says, ‘Why sure’ says I, ‘This merlot’s hard to beat’
;Cher’ Bro’ he says, and so of course I offer him a seat.
My daughter’s got a boyfriend and we get along just fine
He doesn’t speak much English but he seems to know his wine

3.
My daughter’s got a boyfriend so I’m learning about the young
He’s got an earring in his nostril and a cuff link through his tongue
The nuts and bolts in each eyebrow do wonders for his grin
and a little chain connects each ear to a corkscrew in his chin.
I don’t mind his appearance but it does alarm my wife
he resembles nothing quite so much as a big Swiss army knife
My daughter’s got a boyfriend, and once we tune him in
on a clear night we can pick up 2XS from Palmerston

My daughter’s got a boyfriend,a magnetic sort of chap
I suppose that if she dumps him we can sell him off for scrap

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from Middle Class White Boy Blues, released June 1, 2013
Words and Music by Andrew London
Andrew London: Guitar & Vox
Kirsten London: bass & BVs
Nils Olsen: sax & BVs

Recorded & mastered at Matrix Digital Studios Wellington
Engineers Phill Adams and Troy Leamy

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Andrew London New Zealand

New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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