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The Housemartins - Happy Hour (1986)

The Housemartins - Build Play Video

The Housemartins - Build

"It's build a house where we can stay Add a new bit everyday It's build a road for us to cross Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots..."

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The Housemartins Biography

The Housemartins were an English indie pop band that was active in the 1980s. Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time (the back cover of London 0 Hull 4 contained the message, "Take Jesus - Take Marx - Take Hope").

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The Housemartins Lyrics

The Housemartins - Build Lyrics

Clambering men in big bad boots
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
Treated us like plasticine town
They build us up and knocked us down

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The Housemartins - Caravan Of Love Lyrics

Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?

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The Housemartins - Me & The Farmer Lyrics

Me and the farmer get on fine
Through stormy weather and bottles of wine
If I pull my weight he'll treat me well
But if I'm late he'll give me hell

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The Housemartins - Bow Down Lyrics

Mother, Father, I think that I would rather
Stay at home with you for another year
That building's so tall and it makes me feel so small
That I might get lost and simply disappear

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The Housemartins - Happy Hour Lyrics

It's happy hour again I think
I might be happy if I wasn't out with them
And they're happy it's a lovely place to be
Happy that the fire is real the barman is a she

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The Housemartins - Flag Day Lyrics

Too many Florence nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods
Too many halos not enough heroes
Coming up with the goods

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The Housemartins - Sheep Lyrics

Sometimes I get so angry with the simple life they lead
The shepherds smile seems to confirm my fears
They've never questioned anything, they've never disagreed
Sometimes I think they must have wool in their ears

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The Housemartins - Johannesburg Lyrics

Please, don't show your soul to me
I think I'd see the light shine through
Please, don't greet me on the street
I'd like to see a world without you

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The Housemartins Discography

The Housemartins albums.

  • London 0 Hull 4 (disc 1) - 22/06/2009 (Mercury/GB)
  • London 0 Hull 4 (disc 2) - 22/06/2009 (Mercury/GB)
  • The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death - (Go! Discs/GB)
  • London 0 Hull 4 - (Go! Discs/GB)

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