[ti:The Kiss] [ar:Jake Thackray] [al:The Very Best Of Jake Thackray] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Kiss - Jake Thackray [00:07.09]She kissed me like a child fresh [00:09.27]And peckish like a child [00:10.90]She was wild as little strawberries [00:12.80]But though she kissed me [00:14.31]As a child would do [00:16.12]She clung on a little longer [00:17.79]Than she needed to [00:22.16]I did it for a dare go and [00:24.45]Kiss her for a dare [00:25.80]In the middle of the village square [00:27.32]She was as seventeenish as the month of May [00:31.32]And her daddy was a butcher [00:32.92]In a pie-and-puddings way [00:37.05]But then this kiss this kiss [00:38.81]This little skirmish of a kiss [00:40.67]Was importunately witnessed [00:42.28]By the twitching whiskers and the bulging eyes [00:46.02]Of a couple of the local ladies who were passing by [00:49.29]Passing by passing by [00:54.27]Couple of the local ladies who were passing by [01:03.92]It was misunderstood this pretty kiss misunderstood [01:07.40]By the squinting sisterhood [01:08.96]And thus the whisper whisper [01:10.17]Went from pinafore to pinafore [01:12.65]Every tut-tut more grievous [01:14.34]Than the well I never before [01:18.39]Until her daddy heard her demented daddy heard [01:21.96]Every grisly whispered word [01:23.42]And stepping fresh from the slaughterhouse the crimson butcher ran [01:27.26]The steam around his shoulders still A cleaver still in his hand [01:32.88]Well you may buy my pies he cries [01:34.94]My puddings buy my pies [01:36.46]Keep your whippersnapping eyes [01:38.06]From off the juicy beauty of my daughter who [01:41.67]Is a tit-bit far too tasty for the lips of the likes of you [01:45.12]Likes of you likes of you [01:49.93]Far too tasty for the lips of the lay about likes of you [01:59.67]He swung his cleaver high swung His whistling cleaver high [02:03.08]And his cry was agonising [02:04.68]I shall follow king solomon's [02:06.62]Decision inasmuch [02:07.82]As I'm off to split you down the middle easy collarbone to crutch [02:14.08]But with a single bound his daughter [02:16.34]With a springy bound [02:17.56]Flung her arms and legs around me singing [02:19.56]Split all you wish to daddy let the cleaver fall [02:23.00]And you shall split me likewise [02:24.53]Precious titbits and all [02:28.58]I am my own to give nobody [02:30.79]Else but mine to give [02:32.05]Perhaps I'll give it to this whippersnapper [02:34.23]Backbone to belly-button tongue-tip to toe [02:37.54]From nipples up above to bushy triangle below [02:40.82]Down below down below [02:45.83]My tangled diamond down below [02:55.31]Which came as news to me both [02:57.28]To the butcher man and me [02:58.80]But who was I to disagree [03:00.19]What with my nose in her breastbone [03:02.43]Her haunches in my hand [03:03.91]And a chopper in the offing [03:05.51]There was a lot to understand [03:09.68]The cleaver never never fell [03:11.41]The jealous cleaver never fell [03:13.11]And although my eyes were elsewhere [03:14.94]By a pressing little message of her elbows and thighs [03:18.80]She'd let me know her daddy'd Gone tears in his eyes [03:24.25]She kissed me like a child fresh [03:26.67]And peckish like a child [03:27.89]She was wild as little strawberries [03:29.76]But though she kissed me as a child would do [03:33.08]She clung on a little longer [03:34.82]Than she needed to [03:36.75]Needed to needed to [03:41.49]On a little longer than she needed to do