British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather Fill green envelopes and send them to yer On train ride, read Marx tracts Play walkmans loud behind yer Demonstrate on Oxford Street About what the hell they couldn't tell yer British people in hot weather Have a heart-to-heart with your sister People in shorts drunk before yer Beached whale in Wapping His armpit hairs are sprouting Serpentine ah Serpentine grrr British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather Press hot houses waste tree statements Compare your pearls before the King of Mongs I'm telling yer, oh Do they know they can get cancer? Designer tramp goes grrr Looking jolly from Stoke As he walks through and makes up titles like this, to order They're well off their trolley Smoking like a chimney Bespectacled stare-out British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather British people in hot weather I was a candidate for Club 18-30 but I've been through all that shit before British people in hot weather British people in hot weather That's it, I'm looking straight for the car If that's how you feel, let's go British people in hot weather British people in hot weather
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Sources / Links
The Annotated Fall: “British People in Hot Weather” [Archived]
Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
