Ian Telfer
Complete Music Ltd 1986
First released on: Step Outside, 1986
oy said God, listen to me keep your hands off the apple tree Eve and Adam wondered why made some cider and gave it a try God came back and he made a row go and toil by the sweat of your brow the snake said the hell with the daily bread he showed them how to do the latest dance instead and it's the old dance and a crooked dance too step outside the law play the tune on your damned old fiddle it'll burn you up like straw God rolled up in a big black car took a drag on a fat cigar break the law and you pay the price out you go from paradise he stuck a sign on every tree this is private property the snake said property is theft never mind there's always one thing left God sends thunder, God sends hail chills and spills and bills in the mail plagues on the sly and the innocent frogs and boils and the government take your partners in despite try to dance away the night with your hands all round what'll we do when the sky falls down? we'll do the old dance and a crooked dance too step outside the law play the tune on your damned old fiddle it'll burn you up like straw