The Saturday list #290 - Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

 What better way to start the New Year series of Saturday Lists than with  an Ian Dury song, especially a classic. So I ask you, do you agree with Ian's list? I was thinking of other songs with lists. There's Paul Simon's 50 ways to leave your lover, which I want my money back for as he only lists 7. There's also Julie Andrews A few of my favourite things. It got me thinking, so I googled the subject of list songs. It seems there is a whole Wikipedia page of them, although I'm not altogether sure all of them are proper list songs. Although the Beach Boys California Girls has a list of various girls, I am not sure that is central to the song, for instance. I'd never even noticed that Kidney Bingos by Wire even had a list. Anyway I digress. It's a New Year and if you need a reason to be cheerful, really you only need a list with one entry and that is Ian Dury!

Reasons to be cheerful: part three
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Some of Buddy Holly
The working folly
Good golly Miss Molly
And boats

Hammersmith Palais
The Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley
And nanny goats

Eighteen wheeler Scammells
Dominica camels
All other mammals
Plus equal votes

Seeing Piccadilly
Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly
And porridge oats

A bit of grin and bear it
A bit of come and share it
Your welcome we can spare it
And yellow socks

Too short to be haughty
Too nutty to be naughty
Going on forty
No electric shocks

The juice of a carrot
The smile of a parrot
A little drop of claret
Anything that rocks

Elvis and Scotty
The days when I ain't spotty
Sitting on a potty
Curing smallpox

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Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
Round or skinny bottoms

Take your mum to Paris
Lighting up a chalice
Wee Willy Harris

Bantu Steven Biko
Listening to Riko
Harpo, Groucho, Chico

Cheddar cheese and pickle
A Vincent motorcycle
Slap and tickle

Woody Allen, Dali
Dimitri and Pascale
Balla, balla, balla and Volare

Something nice to study
Phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy

Saying: okey-dokey
Singalong a smokey
Coming out a chokey

John Coltrane's soprano
Adie cello carno
Beuno colino

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Yes, yes
Dear, dear
Perhaps next year
Or maybe even never

In which... case

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