Lyrics
Three months, three years
Three months, three years
More lectures
Yes it's them again
You've heard Blob 59
We're gonna move on three years
Music centre irritant
Get yer suits off, get yer jeans on
I can see, I have dreams
I was by the fireplace at home
The date was two O one O
All England was a university town, all you could get was wine
I do brain lust as energy alternative
But I don't go for this death on a plate stuff
So I'll cheer you up
Forget the act
Read the lit-crit first
You wouldn't even know the sun was up unless there was a press release on it
Oh dear friends, I can't continue this, Arthur Askey's just been shot
(Oh my God!)
Maybe we should do a tribute, we'll do "You Got to Hassle Schmuck"
Will you let me play, if i patronise you today
Oh, the Hassle Schmuck
(One, nine)
Get some babies' arms
(Six, two)
Nineteen sixty-two
(Tartan)
Is well on it's way
You gotta Hassle Schmuck
Sex with no drugs
Get out the tartan
Ask for Hassle Schmuck
Get some pics off your old dad
(Old pics)
Pick up some old tartan
(Big spot)
And remember friends
The highland parents
You gotta Hassle Schmuck
Sex with no drugs
Be able to make a man
Be able to trust your man
Hassle, Hassle Schmuck
Everything you know
(Treatment)
Is well up the creek
(So you think)
Everything you know
(Is is)
Is half-baked
(Video reach)
You gotta Hassle Schmuck
You gotta Hassle Schmuck
You dare to laugh at us
(Stereo bug)
You just want shimmering buttocks
(Buttocks)
You dare to laugh at us
But everything you know is well up the creek
Hard life, stereo bug, video reach
Nurse, zit, tartan, words, chats
Laugh, talk, nowt
Watch, reach, here
Cheeky, yeah, Tiswas
Quick burst
Everything you know
(Treatment)
Is well up the creek
(So you think)
Commentary
< Post in progress >
For discussion of the histories of “Cash and Carry” and “Stop Mithering”, see the entry for “C’n’C-S. Mithering”.
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “C’n’C-S Mithering” [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]
- Smith Start, Brix (2016). The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise. London: Faber & Faber. [Text available online in archive.org]
- The Track Record: “C ‘n’ C”
- The Track Record: “Hassle Schmuck”
- The Track Record: “S.Mithering”
- Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).
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