Sundays Best

SUNDAY’S BEST As recorded by Elvis Costello (From the 1979 Album ARMED FORCES) [Intro]        [Verse 1] Times are tough for English babies Send the army and the navy Beat up strangers who talk funny Take their greasy foreign money Skin shop red leather hot line Be prepared for the engaged sign Bridal books engagement rings And other wicked little things [Chorus] Standing in your socks and vest Better get it off your chest Every day is just like the rest But Sunday’s best [Verse 2] Stylish slacks to suit your pocket Back supports and picture lockets Sleepy towns and sleeper trains To the dogs and down the drains Major roads and ladies smalls Hearts of oak and long trunk calls Continental interference At death’s door with life insurance [Chorus] Standing in your socks and vest Better get it off your chest Every day is just like the rest But Sunday’s best [Bridge] Sunday’s best Sunday’s finest When your money’s in the minus And you suffer from your shyness You can listen to us whiners [Verse 3] Don’t look now under the bed An arm a leg and a severed head Read about the private lives The songs of praise the readers’ wives Listen to the decent people Though you treat them just like sheep Put them all in boots and khaki Blame it all upon the darkiiies [Chorus] Standing in your socks and vest Better get it off your chest Every day is just like the rest But Sunday’s best Sunday’s best Sunday’s best Sunday’s best [Outro]