Fantastic life

Got eighteen months for espionage Too much brandy for breakfast And people tend to let you down It's a swine. Fantastic life Dole penicillin to eastern ching plague-ridden And one thing I have found What you cast out will hit back And a man will find he has to deny his Fantastic life Ours is not to look back Ours is to continue the crack Met a 54 year old dustbin man And '48 he'd been in Jerusalem Sold surplus oil to Arab fighters For M-cocktails to burn Jewish terrorists What a turn-up! Fantastic life Style's too easy to buy nowadays And there's interference with the mail And you just can't get out the words Some people think if they had a job they'd be well Now! A fantastic lie! The Siberian mushroom Santa Was in fact Rasputin's brother And he didst walk round Whitechapel To further the religion of forgiven sin murder Fantastic lie! No lie, friend called David He said he had a barney on Corporation Street He said he told the policeman what he really thought But knowing him I don't believe that crap A Fantastic lie