The Men They Couldn't Hang - A Place in the Sun lyrics

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The Men They Couldn't Hang - A Place in the Sun lyrics

Seven weeks it rained, from June until July In August we set out for the equator I sold my red guitar, Joey sold a red-hot car We crossed rhe channel hidden in a freighter We hitched a ride to Lyon in an open Mini-Moke A drunken driver took us to Marseilles I could say "Bonjour", Joey knew the law The rest we memorized along the way Everything we said, everything we'd done Every cheque we'd saved, every hand we'd won We put it all on a place in the sun Every scheme we'd set, every crooked bet We came to find a place in the sun The beggars and the thieves swiftly marked us for a squeeze We panicked and booked rooms inside a hovel Hashish in the halls, whisphers through the walls We found our hotel doubled as a brothel We heard of work picking fruit down on the coast We slipped out of the hotel in the night When we got off at the beach We had 22 francs each Joey kept the money out of sight Everything we said, everything we'd done Every cheque we'd saved, every hand we'd won We put it all on a place in the sun Every scheme we'd set, every crooked bet We came to find a place in sun The agency's address was bar in St. Tropez Between the diet doctor and the bakers Hanging from the till was God on a dollar bill A doorway led straight to the undertakers The work they had in mind wasn't oranges or grapes A different kind fruit to be exported Joey thought it wise to check the merchandise We did, they ran, we ended up deported! Everything we said, everything we'd done Every cheque we'd saved, every hand we'd won We put it all on a place in the sun Every scheme we'd set, every crooked bet We came to find a place in the sun