Joe the Paranoiac

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Come let me tell you about my friend Joe,
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he spends all day sitting by the radio
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tell him to come out but he won’t go
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he only waiting for the bomb to blow
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he said some weapons missing and they don’t know where
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they went and one of them might be nuclear
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and unconfirmed reports have confirmed his fears
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that today is the day something go happen here
CHORUS:
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
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you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
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shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
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you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
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shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
INTERLUDE:
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They have a satellite watching above his head
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a next camera set up by his bed
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when he talks on the phone they know what he said
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you feel all this would have the man upset
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but he says this he happily endures
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nothing else will help him sleep secure
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and the whole while he feeling reassured
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i feel that Joe is mistaking the disease for the cure.
CHORUS:
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
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you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
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shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
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you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
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shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
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You think Joe would have felt a fool
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when the bomb he found was just a plumber’s tool
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when the noise in the night was the neighbour’s mule
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the training camp he reported was a Sunday school
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when the anthrax he took down to the police
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turned out to be an old hunk of mouldy cheese
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you think this would put the man mind at ease
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but he can smell a dirty bomb in a plate of rice and peas
INTERLUDE
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Joe is sure that his neighbour Samuel
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belongs to a sleeper cell
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and when he talks with Ramlogan in the road
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he feel he giving orders in a secret code
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and if you hesitate to believe
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he will declare you and them to be in league
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and from then on watch your tail
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or you might be going Guantanamo on a holiday.
CHORUS:
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
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you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
G
shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
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Ring-a-ling ring-a-ling
G
you hear the sirens sing
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run for cover the walls are tumbling
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dong-a-long dong-a-long
G
shout it round the town
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the ground is shaking and the sky is falling down
(BIS)