Lyrics
You let me down again
And then your goth, slag brain says
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
All you ever say
Is round revival boogie
It's a revival boogie
It's a
It's a small flat baby
Tuff life yeah baby!
Tuff life yeah baby!
It's all you ever need
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
Tuff life jeopardy!
With the balding man
You went to the Netherlands
And with a pernicious refrain
You return and say the same
Give it to me baby one more time
Give it to me baby one more time
Give it to me baby one more time
Give it to me baby one more time
Give it to me baby one more time!
You forever say
Tuff life jeopardy!!
Tuff life jeopardy!!
Commentary
< Post in progress >
I’ve retained the ‘three-o’s’ spelling of the song title as it appears on the cover of The Fall’s single Victoria (1988).
Footnotes
Sources / Links
- The Annotated Fall: “Tuff Life Booogie” [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: “Tuff Life Boogie”
- 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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