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A Short Haired Boy

from Those Unfortunates We Are by Those Unfortunates

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lyrics

I was born a short haired boy
My mother’s pride and joy
And everywhere that mummy went
She’d take me and all, ‘my boy

Is such a perfect specimen
With mummy’s eyes and chins
And bless his little cottons
With daddy’s short haired pins’

They took me up the high street
All the grannies billed and cooed
And hobbled all together
To stroke my scritchy follicles

‘Oh couldn’t you just eat him up?’
They said and licked their lips
I gurgled out in terror
But did they take the hint?

No.

Mother was in tears
When my cowlick first appeared
The bristles became bushels
Til they brushed down past my ears

‘My little boy’s a monster’
She shivered in dad’s arms
He dragged me by the ankles…
To the barbers.

Now I look so neat and smart
A little short haired work of art
Now I look so smart and neat
From my short-haired head to my shoe-shod feet

We eat our crusts and leave the rest
Sup our milk from short haired breasts
To grow the short hairs on our chest…

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from Those Unfortunates We Are, released March 11, 2016

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