Falmouth Electrics

17 years at Falmouth Electrics
Then I got made redundant along with everyone else
Some of the other chaps got taken on at the new Morrisons
That wasn’t for me though, I wanted something anew

I bought a ventriloquist dummy from a shop in Redruth
I took it on home, pierced its ears and back-combed its hair
With eyeliner on, it looked like Pete Murphy a bit
He could talk fairly well though he couldn’t pronounce the letter B

I said, “That’s OK lad. It makes life much easier for me.”
He said his name was Gary
I said: “Do you mean Barry?”
He said: “Yeah”
We paraded the High Street in Falmouth and went down a storm
He’d thought up a catchphrase and he used it as we neared HMV
“Have you got any Gauhaus?”
“Have you got any Gauhaus?”
Pssshew

All was tremendous between us until it went wrong
We argued a lot, he demanded a signature song
And he mocked me and taunted me and bragged that he got all the girls
(I get all the girls)
So I lashed him on the fire and that was the end of all that

Bye bye to Barry
I’m bound for Barbados by boat
Be-Bop-a-Lula
Barbados with Barbara by boat
Has the cat got your tongue Barry?
Have you got nothing to say?
Build me up butter bean
Babbacombe and the Bay of Biscay

There’s no twist in the tale here
He’s not coming back in my head
And if you gave me my medicine
I’d probably go back to bed
17 years at Falmouth Electrics