Home For a Rest

Music and lyrics by Spirit of the West  (slightly modified)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s

You'll have to excuse us, We’re not at our best

We've  been gone for five months, We've been drunk since we’ve left

These so-called vacations will soon be our death

We’re so sick from the drink we need home for a rest.

We arrived in the springtime and London was cold

We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road

We never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak

Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats

CHORUS:

You'll have to excuse us, We’re not at our best

We've been gone for five months

We've been drunk since we’ve left

And these so-called vacations

Will soon be our death

We’re so sick from the drink

We need home for a rest

Take us home....

Paddington Station the train journey north

In the buffet car we lurched back and forth

Past old crooked dykes through Yorkshire's green fields
We were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled

- CHORUS -

By the light of the moon, she'd drift through the streets

A rare old perfume, so seductive and sweet

She'd tease us and flirt, as the pubs all closed down

Then walk us on home and deny us a round

You'll have to excuse us, we’re not at our best

We’ve been gone for five months

We've been drunk since we’ve left

And these so-called vacations

Will soon be our death

We’re so sick from the drink

We need home for a rest

Take us home....

The gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb

The spirits we drank now ghosts in the room

I'm knackered again, come on sleep take us soon

And don't lift up our head 'till the twelve bells at noon

You'll have to excuse us, We’re not at our best

We've been gone for five months

We've been drunk since we’ve left

And these so-called vacations

Will soon be our death

We’re so sick from the drink

We need home for a rest

Take us home