Lyrics

Goin' Rate

Available on:
 4 A's From Maida Vale
 Warts 'N' All
 Sleeper

Marc Riley - Guitar, Vocals
Pete Keogh - Bass
Paul Fletcher - Guitar, Organ
Eddie Fenn - Drums
Mike Gallaher - Tenor Sax
Jon Hunter - Trumpet

Sorry son don't work for free, it's unoriginal but still it's me
Play for me, play for me
Sorry son don't work for free
They say

What's the goin' rate
I will give you half
What's the goin' rate
I will give you half

Well we travelled down to London town in a van pissing down
A fiver each, the gig was a peach
travelled back the ...
They say

What's the goin' rate
I will give you half
What's the goin' rate
I will give you half

We go up and down, up and down, stripper's knickers, up and down
.. another sound, another dick you say

What's the goin' rate
I will give you half
What's the goin' rate
I will give you half

Well it's a loss for nothing playing to see
Sometimes this lifestyle gets to be ...
Mission depressed a man in a dress, a shadow figure, I digress

I go up and down, up and down, stripper's knickers, up and down
... gets me down stripper's knickers, up and down

What's the goin' rate
I will give you half
What's the goin' rate
I will give you half

Try to make them understand that The Creepers are me
I'm not a registered charity
Bloodsucking flea ...
Come down here Mark, work for free
They say

What's the goin' rate
I will give you half
What's the goin' rate
I will give you half

Why ask for a hundred pound?
Come on Marc we really dig your sound
Why ask for a hundred pound?
Come on Marc we really dig your sound

Grand master and me we don't work for free, work for free, work for free
Grand master and me we don't work for free, work for free, work for free