Sheriff Fatman started out in business

as a granny farmer

He was infamous for fifteen minutes

And he appeared in Panorama

Then he somehow got himself on board

The Starship Enterprise Allowance Scheme

With a Price of Wales award

for pushing valium and amphetamines



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Now he's moving up onto second base

Behind Nicholas Van Wotsisface

At six foot six and a hundred tons

The undisputed king of the slums

More aliases than Klaus Barbie

The master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea

Just about to take the stage

The one and only

Hold the front page



Fatman's got something to sell

To the capitol's homeless

At the Crossroads Hotel

For the no-fixed-abodeless

Where you can live life in style

You can sleep in a closet

And if you flash him a smile

He'll take your teeth as a deposit



There's bats in the belfry

The windows are jammed

The toilets ain't healthy

And he don'T give a damn

He just chuckles and smiles

And laughs like a madman

A born again Rachman

Here comes Sheriff Fatman



With his valium, amphetamines

His sick notes and his phoney prescriptions

And just when yo thought it was safe

To go back in the kitchen, dead legs and cracked heads

Bunk-beds and breakfasts

Wake up you sleepy headcases...check this...



Moving up now to take the place

Of Nicholas Van Wotsisface

At six foot six and a hundred tons

The undisputed king of the slums

With more aliases than Klaus Barbie

The master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea

In a hatchback from Notre Dame

The one and only Sheriff Fatman



In goes another left hook

And now I'm losing my patience

Someone call up Roger Cook and the United Nations

He's buying up houses for hasbeens (help me)

>From Lands End to Southend to Chelsea



There's bats in the belfrey

The windows are jammed

The toilets ain't healthy

He don't give a damn

He just chuckles and smiles

And laughs like a madman

Ladies and gentlemen,

I give you...

Sheriff Fatman!

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