Pop: Lyric sheets: The BBC is facing 'Top of the Pops' off against 'Coronation Street'...
TOTP... a nation mourns
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Your support makes all the difference.The MD and his A&R
Were looking at the charts,
"Not only have they switched the day
But look what time it starts
The BBC have stitched us up
TOTP's on Fri.
And all the stuff we want to sell
Will pass the punters by
Now what does this imply?"
"Are you trying to say," he asked
"That if they had a choice
Instead of all our putrid stuff That Vera Duckworth's voice
Competing for attention
Would light the nation's candle?
"A good job that we signed her then
I'm sure the kids could handle
A gritty Northern rapper type
Behind a techno track
A dancefloor smash for
Vera D
It's called The ER Jack"
"ER Jack. ER Jack
Brewery wagon's roundt' back
'Appen it's crushed Percy's bike
Is he happy? 'Eckaslike!"
"This is just the start of it,"
Grinned the proud MD
"Wait 'til you hear Ambient Street
Featuring Kenny B"
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