Lyric Sheets

Martin Newell
Thursday 20 February 1997 19:02 EST
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In the week the Spice Girls debut single went to No. 1 in America....

The Life of Spice

Our own home-grown Madonnabes

Hands posed near naughty places

Their neat Miss Selfridge figures

Their Alliance & Leicester faces

With eyes which give the game away

You sense the smiles straining

When tabloids want bikini shots

Exteriors - and it's raining.

The wit and wisdom of their words

Are trundled past you daily:

"I used to breed chinchillas and

Me uncle lives in Rayleigh.

We're Tories but we're liberal

We're very slightly Labour

Coz Thatcher was a Spice Girl and

The Pope's me next door neighbour."

They're number one in USA

They're all extremely cute

Like pictures sold in Woolworths

Of some kittens in a boot

I bet the gruelling schedule

Can sometimes make them weepy

Geri, Mel, Victoria, Mel,

Er... Grumpy, Doc and Sleepy?

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