There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards Lyrics by Ian Dury And The Blockheads

There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards

Noel Coward was a charmer.
As a writer he was brahma.
Velvet, jackets and pyjamas,
had a gay divorce and other dramas.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless

There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Probably got help from their mum
[who had help from her mum].
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Now that we've had some,
let's hope that there's lots more to come.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Okey-dokey!
Oh!
Segovia.
Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever bastards
[Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders]
There ain't half been some clever........
..................................bastards.