Top 20 The Kinks

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"They took my baby to Holloway jail,
They took my baby, down Holloway jail,
She was a lady when she went in,
Now she's in jail, and it's giving me hell."

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" It's such a shame."

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"Rosy won't you please come home ?
Your room's clean and no one's in it."

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"And now all the houses are rare antiquities, American tourists flock to see the village green. They snap their photographs and say : Gawd darn it, isn't it a pretty scene? "

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"Well I cut down women, I cut out booze,
I stopped ironing my shirts, cleaning my shoes,
I stopped going to work, stopped reading the news,
I sit and twiddle my thumbs cos I got nothing to do."

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"I get up
And I see the sun up
And I feel good
'Cause my life has begun."

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"And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon."

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"Seven miles below me I can see the world and it ain't so big at all."

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"Lying on the beach with my back burned rare, the salt gets in my blisters and the sand gets in my hair, and the sea's an open sewer, but I really couldn't care, I'm breathing through my mouth so I don't have to sniff the air."

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"But please don't tread on dearest Marilyn
'Cause she's not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood."

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"Put on your slippers and sit by the fire
You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher."

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"Sylvilla looked into her mirror
Percilla looked into the washing machine
And the drudgery of being wed
She was so jealous of her sister
And her liberty, and her smart young friends
She was so jealous of her sister."

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"Ah, Tom is young and Tom is bold
Tom is as bold as the knights of old
But whenever he gets in a bit of a jam
There's nothing he won't do to get a harry rag."

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"You'd better run, you'd better fly.
Hide your daughters, hide your wives.
Lock your doors and stay inside
Here comes Flash."

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"Yes Sir, no Sir
Permission to speak Sir
Permission to breathe Sir."

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"Well I can roar like a lion, I can sting like a bee
But some times I think, baby, I've got rabbit blood in me."

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"You worry 'bout the sun
What's the use of worrying 'bout the big ol' sun
You worry 'bout the rain
The rain keeps falling just the same."

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" I have destroyed what little faith you had in me, I've been such a naughty boy."