Would You Adam & Eve It?

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Track 7: Bettentcher - an old London contraction for 'better had not you'. A London ditty with some Cockney rhyming slang (see footnotes!)

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You better had then bettentcher

You better had then bettentcher

You're gonna have to do the business if you talk like that

Or are you all mouth and trousers* in your tit for tat¹

You better had then bettentcher

You better had then bettentcher

You may look snazzy and so cocksure

But trust me son I've heard ducks fart before

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I was chatting on the dog² when I heard the bang

Sounded like some boy racer had just had a prang

Had a butchers³ out my window and I saw it all

He'd put the rear end of his jam jar⁴ through my garden wall

So I'm looking at the damage when his head appears

Showing something tween a smile and an annoying lear

Well i let out a few expletives and I had a shout,

But he says keep yer 'air on grandpa, I'll get it sorted out

There's a bunch of little toe-rags we all know

Who've be playing knock down ginger up and down our road.

If you say anything, they just cheek you back

In the good old days you could just give 'em a whack

I spoke to their dad he said kids'll be kids

So I told him what I thought about his dustbin lids⁵

But he  turns up his nose like he's just trod in a turd

Says don't worry grandpa I'll just have a word

* Technically all mouth and no trousers (as in all talk, no action)

¹ tit for tat (often just titfa) - hat

² dog and bone – phone

³ butchers’ hook – look

⁴ jam jar - car

⁵ dustbin lids - kids

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