There Goes a Tenner (2018 Remaster)

[Verse 1]

Okay, remember

Okay, remember

That we have just allowed half an hour

To get in, do it and get out

The sense of adventure

Is changing to danger

The signal has been given

I go in, the crime begins

[Pre-Chorus 1]

My excitement

Turns into fright

[Chorus 1]

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (All my words fade)

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (What am I gonna say? Mustn't give the game away)

[Post-Chorus]

We're waiting

We're waiting

We're waiting

[Verse 2]

We got the job sussed

This shop's shut for business

The lookout has parked the car but kept the engine running

Three beeps means trouble's coming

I hope you remember

To treat the gelignite tenderly for me

I'm having dreams about things not going right

Let's leave in plenty of time tonight

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Both my partners

Act like actors

[Chorus 2]

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (You are Bogart)

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (He is George Raft, that leaves Cagney and me)

What about Edward G.?

[Post-Chorus]

We're waiting

We're waiting

We're waiting

[Verse 3]

You blow the safe up

Then all I know is I wake up, covered in rubble

One of the rabble needs mummy (What's all this, then?)

The government will never find the money (What's all this, then?)

I've been here all day

A star in strange ways

Apart from a photograph, they'll get nothing from me

Not until they let me see my solicitor

[Outro]

Ooh, I remember

That rich, windy weather

When you would carry me

Pockets floating in the breeze

Ooh, there goes a tenner

Hey, look, there's a fiver

There's a ten-shilling note

Remember them?

That's when we used to vote for him