Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes Lyrics

My Saturday job pays six and six down A copy boy at the Chronicle Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns Meeting Vince at Mark Toney's in town Boy, do we get around Basil sits...Read Full Lyrics

I came in three days early To meet my boat It ain't the life of Riley But it's keeping me afloat It's quiet over Christmas If you got no place to go I got my home from river rats T...Read Full Lyrics

I've been banned from every racecourse in the country There's something about the unsure thing Like scoring with a beauty of the county It always makes the old bell ring I like to...Read Full Lyrics

A room on the top floor And the chest all but knackered Two fingers not working And the back's shot to hell It's a lifetime of digging trenches In the cold and wet weather And for ...Read Full Lyrics

She likes a man with a broken nose Lucky for me, I suppose Shots coming in like the monthly bills Soon they'll be saying I'm over the hill Well the bell goes clang and you're on y...Read Full Lyrics

All I do is think of you As I go around the world All I do is think of you Long, cool girl Long, cool girl I like to say her name Long, cool girl With a showgirl frame You took a...Read Full Lyrics

There's laughter in the darkness Music floating in across the bay He's half listening and wondering How he could have let her slip away So long ago but still he wants to know If an...Read Full Lyrics

It was so late and she'd be sleeping He came through her home town With the moonlight on the crossroads And the green light shining down And the bell at the railroad crossing And t...Read Full Lyrics

Maybe I'm bound to wander From one place to the next Heaven knows why But in the wild blue yonder Your star is fixed In my sky Just another bar, at a cross roads So far from home...Read Full Lyrics

The fate of a roving gambler Is waiting down the bloodthirsty highway The highway is my home, I'm a rambler And I have to pay the devil every day Now if I should owe a friend a mi...Read Full Lyrics