There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards Lyrics - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Noel Coward was a charmer 

As a writer he was Brahma 

Velvet, jackets and pajamas 

The gay divorcee 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 Gogh 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 

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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 

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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