Gertcha

Album: Double Bubble (1979)
Charted: 20
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  • Now there's a word that I don't understand
    I hear it every day from my old man
    It may be Cockney rhyming slang
    It ain't in no school book
    He says it every time that he gets mad
    A regular caution is my old dad
    Rub the old man up the wrong way, bet your life you'll hear him say
    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha

    Gertcha, when the kids are swinging on the gate
    Gertcha, when the paperboy's half an hour late
    Gertcha, when the pigeons are pecking at his seed
    Gertcha, when the barber starts digging up his bean
    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
    Bar stool preaching
    That's the old man's game

    Now the old man was a desert rat
    Khaki shorts and a khaki hat
    How me mother could have fancied that, I just don't know
    But when the enemy came in sight
    They gave up without a fight
    They rubbed him up the wrong way
    This is what they heard him say
    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha

    Gertcha, when me rock and roll records wake him up
    Gertcha, when the Poles knock England out of the cup
    Gertcha, when the kids are banging on his door
    Gertcha, when the barman won't serve him any more
    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
    Bar stool preaching
    He's always been the same (hey)

    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
    Gertcha, when the dog's left a message on the step
    Gertcha, Lester Piggott, when he lost it by a neck
    Gertcha, when me brother kicks the toes out of his shoes
    Gertcha, when the houseflies are flying 'round his food
    Gertcha, cowson, gertcha
    Bar stool preaching
    He's always been the same

    Gertcha, gertcha
    Gertcha, gertcha

    Gertcha, when me mother says he can't go down the pub
    Gertcha, sister's boyfriend putting sister up the club
    Gertcha, when the tomcats, when they're kicking up a din
    Gertcha, Tottenham Hotspur couldn't get one in
    Gertcha, when me mother locks him out of the flat
    Gertcha, when it's raining and he can't find his hat
    Gertcha, in the mornings when his motorcar won't go
    Gertcha, next door neighbor, when he won't give him a tow

    Gertcha, gertcha
    Gertcha, gertcha Writer/s: Charles Hodges, David Peacock
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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