[00:14.30]George looks gorgeous in pinstripes,
[00:18.03]pocket handkerchief and cravat,
[00:21.04]swaggering out of the Band On The
[00:24.15]Wall in a burgundy Homberg hat,
[00:27.67]singing "Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
[00:42.39]George after-hours and the worse for whisky
[00:46.63]when somebody shouts "Hey, you!"
[00:49.36]in a pitch-black Manchester backstreet
[00:53.27]well, what's a poor singer to do
[00:56.05]but sing "Ratatatay, ratatatay"?
[01:11.28]Two men flashing a knife blade,
[01:15.00]saying "give us your notes and your watch"
[01:18.89]Singing the backstreet stand-off
[01:22.29]to the rhythm of the fear and the scotch.
[01:26.44]
[01:42.10]George, not wanting to feel the knife,
[01:45.91]cornered and speeding and scared ...
[01:48.90]from the back of his mind comes 'Ursonate',
[01:53.21]Sound and fury and words.
[01:55.23]He sings: "Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
[02:09.43]
[02:24.28]"Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
[02:38.19]So the robbers are stuck to the spot now,
[02:42.52]watching George as he sings for his life.
[02:46.17]Menace turns to panic and they turn and run
[02:50.00]and the song waves goodbye to the knife
[02:52.75]singing "Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
[03:07.58]"Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
[03:21.14]"Ratatatay, ratatatay!"
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