You rush up and ask rash questions We sit down and compose our replies There is nothing like a good time This is nothing like a good time Oooh! Down in the coal hole Oooh! Every night Recipe for fake disasters Moneyed cousins Snipe and Snape Hank is dead, the strike is over We never knew we had so many friends Out on the pavement a pigeon eats shit And a half dead banker is watching it We are born but we live and learn Then we die and forget it all We are born and we live to regret it As the press writes up and die right presses down Oooh! Down in the coal hole Oooh! Every night Who is that hunchback up there in the tower? I don't know his name but his face rings a bell He stole a shirt but it did not fit hirn So they locked hirn up when he took it back