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Bumblebees, there's alot of you about Bumblebees, you make me scared to go out Bumblebees, Bumblebees Bumblebees, the sun is shining now But Bumblebees, I'm down when you're around Bumblebees please keep away from me Bumblebees, please stay among the leaves Bumblebees, Bumblebees Bumblebees don't make me feel your sting I would not want to be your final fling So stay away this lovely summer's day And Bumblebees, friends we will remain
2.
You must have seen us we're Motorway Maintenance We work on Motorways the whole day through We've got problems not the least of them drivers Try to knock us down, that's what they do Wearing orange to enhance visibility We drive a car with a flashing light We're just trying to improve the facilities Placing cones in the dead of night Contraflow, contraflow, got to use the contraflow Contraflow, contraflow, got to use the contraflow Here we are we're Motorway Maintenance It's our job to get the traffic through Don't blame us we're Motorway Maintenance We're just men with a job to do You must have seen our digging machinery We always lease from JCB We really trust their reliability They get us home in time for tea We're taking care of our extremities Sturdy gloves a necessity Hefty hats we wear with alacrity Heavy boots to protect our feet Contraflow, contraflow, got to use the contraflow Contraflow, contraflow, got to use the contraflow Here we are we're Motorway Maintenance It's our job to get the traffic through Don't blame us we're Motorway Maintenance We're just men with a job to do Da da da M23 Da da da M17
3.
He loves only you, he told me last night His love is so true, but what about you He's so in love with you Can't you see it's true He loves only you He told me last night His love is so true But what about you But she's in love with you And it makes her blue Oh why can't you see It's you that I love I'm making my plea to heaven above It's breaking my heart when we are apart I love you not your friend Will this pain never end Why is love so cruel? Why must we act like fools? He loves only you Don't say that it's true He told me last night No that can't be right His love is so true That's why I'm blue But what about you? I'm loving you (Repeat to fade)
4.
Fly with me soon, in my balloon Up in the sky, flying so high In my balloon Oh, I feel fine, up in the sky Floating with you, through the white and the blue In my balloon We'll say cheerio, to the people below Then we'll fly to the stars, Venus and Mars In my balloon
5.
I know this girl She's out of this world She's got some friends But I haven't counted them We're Sally's friends, We're Sally's friends We're born again Christians We're Sally's friends She loves all anthropods She likes to talk to God She'll drive you round the bend But you should meet Sally's friends We're Sally's friends, We're Sally's friends We're born again Christians We're Sally's friends Cain and Abel, Mary in the stable Mind those nails, last supper on the table Don't get cross man, God's still the Boss Man Ku Klux Klan burning people when they can Choir boys up for rent, sexually deviant Ten Commandments needing an amendment Bells in steeple irritate the people Too doctrinal, rather have a Bacchanal They're Sally's friends Both of them
6.
We're going on a honeymoon We're going in June We'll be taking a room by the blue lagoon I'll be crooning this tune beneath the silvery moon We'll watch the Scandaroons In the afternoon Forming demilunes when it's opportune Do Be De Do Do, De Do Be De Do Why do we have to go? It's great in Glasgow, it's only five below We'll go down to the Clyde and take formaldehyde That's how my mother died And I cried Though young Conservatives Politically purgative Mentally vegetative Their love was agglutative We'll leave the octuplets That you had for a bet Delivered by the Vet at the maisonette While I was in Tibet with the architect I wrote a rondolet On a beautiful day Drinking Chardonnay and cafe au lait In a Chevrolet near the Bay of Biscay I still don't want to go I'd prefer Mexico, or even Borneo I want to do him in while on the dunnikin I'll give him catechin The feudal right to maritage Extinct except in Stevenage Exclusive to the privileged Who manufacture sausages Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end They drove me round the bend Da da da da da da

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To coincide with the resurrection of Jon E. Parker & The Sessionaires after a mere twenty three years here are the original recordings from 1990. They are not so much remastered as just mastered for the first time.

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released August 21, 2013

The cover photograph, Nadar Self-Portrait with Wife Ernestine in a Balloon Gondola c. 1865, is courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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