Reasons to Be Cheerful: the Best of Ian Dury
Ian Dury (1942-2000) was an English singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
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Born on 12th May 1942, he is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, though he began his musical career in pub-rock act Kilburn & the High Roads. He wrote many famous songs including "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", "What a Waste", and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll". He died on 27th March 2000.

At the age of seven, Dury contracted polio; very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. After six weeks in a full plaster cast in Truro hospital, he was moved to Black Notley Hospital, Braintree, Essex, where he spent a year and a half before going to Chailey Heritage Craft School, East Sussex, in 1951. Chailey was a school and hospital for disabled children, and believed in toughening them up, contributing to the observant and determined person Dury became.
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Reasons to Be Cheerful: the Best of Ian Dury
Ian Dury Lyrics


Bed 'O' Roses No. 9 I've done a lot of things I wished I hadn't There's…
Dance Little Rude Boy Hey, with your natty threads and your nifty dreads And your…
Don't Ask Me Here I stand With a doughnut for a brain On my life,…
Fucking Ada Moments of sadness, moments of guilt Stains on the memory, s…
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick In the deserts of Sudan And the gardens of Japan From Milan…
I Want To Be Straight I'm Charley, you know I'm Norman pleased to meet you I'm Mic…
Inbetweenies In the mirror, when I'm debonair My reactions are my own…
My Old Man My old man wore three piece whistles He was never home…
Pam's Moods When me and Pam Are hand in hand We make a lovely…
Peter The Painter Who's got the toughest brush with the sweetest strokes at…
Poo-Poo in the Prawn I took a sudden notion To go down to the ocean I'd…
Poor Joey I'm Joey the Budgie, I'm a boy or a girl I'm…
Profoundly in Love With Pandora My mother's heart and soul Have gone halfway up the pole My…
Razzle In My Pocket In my yellow jersey, I went out on the nick. South…
REALLY GLAD YOU CAME Although you think I'm sleeping as you get set to…
rough kids Rough kids play rough games and kick tin-cans They walk in…
Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is all my brain…
Spasticus Autisticus I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus I'm spasticus autisticus I'm …
Superman's Big Sister Till I met her, I thought I knew the answers I…
Sweet Gene Vincent Blue Gene baby Skinny white sailor, The chances were slende…
The Bus Driver's Prayer Our Father, Who art in Hendon Harrow Road be Thy name Thy Ki…
the roadette song Shaken on her shoulder, shaking on her arse Ain't no doubt…
There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards Noel Coward was a charmer. As a writer he was brahma. Velv…
Wake Up And Make Love With Me I come awake With the gift for womankind You're still asleep…
What A Waste I could be the driver an articulated lorry I could be…


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