[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Dark and grey
An English film, the Wednesday Play
We always watch the Queen
On Christmas Day
Won't you stay?
Though your eyes
See shipwrecked sailors you're still dry
The outlook's fine
Though Wales might have some rain
Saved again

[Chorus]
Let's skip the news boy
I'll make some tea
Arabs and Jews boy
Too much for me
They get me confused boy
Puts me off to sleep
And the thing I hate, oh Lord
Is staying up late
To watch some debate on some nation's fate

[Verse 2]
Hypnotised by Batman
Tarzan, still surprised
You've won the West in time
To be our guest
Name your prize
Drop of wine
A glass of beer, dear, what's the time?
The grime on the Tyne is mine
All mine, all mine
Five past nine
[Chorus]
Blood on the rooftops
Venice in the Spring
The Streets of San Francisco
A word from Peking
The trouble was started
By a young Errol Flynn
Better in my day, oh Lord
For when we got bored
We'd have a world war, happy but poor
So let's skip the news boy
I'll go make that tea
Blood on the rooftops
Too much for me
When old Mother Goose stops
And they're out for 23
Then the rain at Lords stopped play
Seems Helen of Troy
Has found a new face again