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Intro

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I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chip shop regime.

The girl who

there, she seemed happy,

But I knew it was not what it seemed.

"Do you want salt and vinegar?", was what they made her say,

But in the language of the ghetto,

That means, "Help, I'm a woman in chains"

I wanted to free her.

In my dreams I would see her.

Running naked through the woods round Rainham,

If I had some tigers I'd train them.

To protect her

From the sexual fascism that was lurking, round the gherkins

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Yeah

I'd lean across the counter and we would talk,

I carved the name "Debbie" on a little wooden fork.

But into the shop came a skinhead gang,

They snatched the fork from my hand.

Debbie, she looked at me, to assert my masculinity.

I said "Oi!", they said "What?", I said "Nothing”