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I tried to make my parents proud
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze.
I need someone to cook for me
I hear them gossip on the street,
Snookeroo, Snookeroo, daddy's going on the booze.
Snookeroo
Elton John and Bernie Taupin
© Big Pig Music Ltd. London
I was born in the north of England,
I was raised in a working town.
I broke all the rules when I went to school,
But the teachers couldn't pin me down.
By adapting the social powers.
Oh, pigs will fly and the earth will fry,
When they get me doing honest hours.
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news.
Well, it was two rooms up and two rooms down,
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane.
Oh, I was born on the eve of Hallowe'en
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo, Snookeroo's my name.
And turn me loose at night.
I could spend my life with a factory girl,
'Cause a factory girl's my type.
Most of what they say is true.
Oh, don't you know that I hear them say,
"There goes that lazy, no-good Snookeroo."
Mother used to cut my hair and sister used to make the news.
Well, it was two rooms up (two rooms up)
And two rooms down,(two rooms down)
We were sentenced by the wrecking crane.
Oh, I was born on the eve of Hallowe'en
And Snookeroo, Snookeroo,
Snookeroo, Snookeroo,
Snookeroo, Snookeroo,
Snookeroo's my name, yeah.
