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Cyril Preston, trombonist with, Dick Charlesworth and His City Gents; The Cyril Preston Jazz Band and The Old Fashioned Love Band. He liked a drink, too much.

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My dad was an Alcoholic, he was life and soul of the party
My dad was an alcoholic, he was rude and very funny.

He drank, he drank the silly old sod from knock off work till last train home.
From Sunday lunch till after hours, then back home for a miserable row.

He was big and warm his wit a mile wide. He played and teased with love in his eyes.
But when he came home from the pub at night he had poison rage and hate in his eyes.

My dad was an alcoholic he was life and soul of the party.
My dad was an alcoholic, he snored and was very farty.

Roll out the barrel. roll out the endless parties.
Roll out the cronies, roll out those monologues.
A packet of crisps and a can of coke and 10p for the fruit machine.
Roll out the whisky, roll out the misery.

My dad was a nicotine addict he had dark stains on his fingers.
My dad had a heavy fag habit, he had a beard and a smokey jumper.

40 players everyday, coughing and retching to clear the way.
The doctor told him he had to quit, so he drank more to cope with it.

Roll up a number, I’ll have a tailor made,
Roll out the sputum, and wash it down the drain.

My dad was a loving man distorted by his afflictions.
my dad was a loving man he was killed by his addictions

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from Ruling Class, released September 9, 2017

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