Hey! Susan

Intro:

In a backstreet in New York

The rehearsal studio of the Mekons

[Verse 1]

He thought education would be the way out

He'd read the books and learned by rote

But they walked past in their gowns

They were worlds apart

A man like him just had no place

[Verse 2]

He started drinking too much

And one night in the pub he saw his wife behind the bar

They arranged a divorce but spent the night together

So he destroyed the one he loved

[Verse 3]

Susan turned to religion, Amen!

After the tragedy, the death of her children

And returned to her husband and gave her body to him

She said it was her duty

[Verse 4]

His mind was free but he'd nothing left at all

He cursed the night in which he was conceived

While the witless upper classes attended the boat race

He died