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let's
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come on come on your father and i've
been up for hours
wake up sean is half past eight you
gotta go to school and you're gonna be
late
i'll count to four before i open this
door and if you're still in bed you're
gonna beat me instead
don't worry mom i'm up on my feet i'm
worse than dressed and i'm looking neat
man what's the rush man it's only school
there's plenty of time so chill out be
cool
now i'm signing off from the hottest nc
who's fresher than the rest
better than the best i'm from peckham so
there's no contest
morning mrs ambrose oh morning louise
did you sleep well yeah fine thanks well
if you go downstairs to the kitchen
i'll come down and make breakfast in a
minute okay okay mom has the post
arrived yet no
not yet gloria i want you to go
downstairs and make some breakfast for
louise i don't want to leave her too
long
on your own well mom louise believes
that women shouldn't be slaves to the
kitchen
and she has made a conscious decision
not to familiarize herself with kitchen
utensils oh yes
well you better just go downstairs and
reintroduce her to mine
all right yeah last time she was here
that child nearly burned my house down
making beans on toast
desmond ambrose 57
why and still handsome
how are you today i feel 27. that's good
why after that rum last night i feel 63.
but pork pie you are 63. why matthew
you're stupider
all right name this tune the time they
did the everything
bust it
1960 billy butterfield joe wilder on
trumpet
he was almost as good as me the greatest
trumpeter
jazidi
matthew how many times do i have to tell
you i don't want that paper in my shop
that's what we are doing studying on
what the extreme or how many times they
blame black people for so many things
no it's a study on censorship and the
press
when in my day they never teach you
worthless things like that is that an
excuse to read dirty magazines
gloria make sure you have something to
eat before you go out
glow can you remember which of the
bronte's sisters wrote jane eyre
um no wait wait um
what's her name what's her name did you
know that
i used to have a brain once you know
it's just that i put it away when i
married your father
yo catch you later dad
you see that you know where you learn
that
in school they have evening classes that
teach them to walk like that on spray
with me
they call it break dance and graffiti
art
i call it can't dance and vandalism dad
come yet it's over there darling
anything for me no listen you two
after you've had this i want you to go
this is not a cafe you know
oh come on cheryl don't be like that if
people like us that keep this shop going
without us this place wouldn't be the
same without you this place would be a
barbershop
instead of a bookie and a social club
but you can't just throw us out to roam
the streets with nothing to do
i might get into trouble all right
you can stay on one condition just
anything anything
one of your got to get his hair cut ah
obviously you must be referring to pork
pie
he's one that had so long i don't think
even he knows what's under it
is that's the time i really must go to
college now otherwise i'll be late
oh what's your lecture today matthew
it's tabloid journalism
undermining the moral father of today's
urban society
oh see you later bye
all right popeye it's you at least you
can get these sides cut
look is that the time i really must go
to college now
come on gloria i want to see it too all
right
listen to this one
male 1 five for eight tall sexy
w e yeah what does we mean
well in
yeah doubt want a handsome rich
intelligent
here how did you know what w.e meant
you've done this before
no i haven't listened you're not gonna
find anyone with brains in here you know
all you're likely to get in here is wms
what's that
weird men i don't see why yeah listen to
this
at mail order man you can have the man
of your dreams
from the comfort of your own home so no
more boring chat up lines like
haven't we met somewhere before babe do
you come here often well i'm sister
you cool i think i know your sister very
well
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how's that reginald to that
chinese racket i tell you what
next time i'll put in two wavy lines and
we can call it a tennis ball
all right
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who needs sunglasses to wear a suit like
that
so it's a precision tailoring little
thing there
you buy that done holiday nah i got it
from two ex-cons down at me they're
doing tailoring on one of those restart
courses they should restart on the suit
how much did it cost a wanna what do you
think hey miami vice for a suit like
that you need legal advice
so how was your holiday leave it was
wicked
no meanery by the way where did you go
jayai elay usa and that was just the
name of the discos
spain costa bomb club ain't eating a 30.
it was all the s's right sun surf
sand and see you after supper scenery
have you ever thought of saving up your
money and investing it or phone for a
rainy day ah this is england des it
rhymes every day
instead of going to jail in spain you
could have saved up the money instead of
gone to the real jamaica check out your
roots where you was born i've seen where
i was born i drive past it every day
king's college hospital cam oil london
oh can i help you pinch me there so i
know i'm not dreaming mate
all right i haven't met before hey don't
tell me
you're not from around here right no
because if you were
i'd certainly know about you and you no
doubt would have heard about me
i've got a couple of tickets for me
boxing club dinner and dance in a couple
of weeks time
i'm fighting i'll knock you out first
round if you can
see it
i see you haven't lost your touchley
good morning who was that little boy oh
don't worry about him he's harmless
really
i guessed yeah what can i do for you you
know firstly a couple of tickets to see
me box plus dinner plus dance death
when is it thursday fortnight not
thursday's me and shirley night out
i said why bring her along you know she
don't like boxing
so how long you staying for oh two maybe
three weeks it depends
on what oh my brother jean-pierre he
teaches french over here
oh really yes he's just started an adult
language course at peckham civic center
when on monday evenings he wants me to
help him out
uh-huh what does
x find mean well
if you've got a character or a command
and you have to find it the computer
locates it for you
ah
can i go
yeah press that key
what's going on don't worry that it's
talking
to itself you mean a computer can talk
to itself yeah it's got its own language
yeah check it out dad
i'm sorry i asked i can certainly say
your mother and i are through our
learning
days oh are we well as a matter of fact
i've decided to take french lessons what
oh great mom
what do you want to learn french for
well you always aren't about the
children's education so i thought
why not but that's different they're
young they have to go to school
and it's free what you're trying to say
i too old
yes no i mean well i don't see the point
oh come on dad don't mean a fatty daddy
your children can't even talk english
properly you want to learn french
i just want to do something to exercise
my brain and you're making all this fuss
what's your problem nothing sean it's
ready
you think i'll be wasting my time no you
think i'm too old
no you're just frightened of being left
behind no
look all those in favor of mum learning
french say yes
we yeah voted that since when do we vote
i make the decisions in my house ah
thank you desmond
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the trouble with these photographs are
you can't see the faces properly man
hmm oh they're bums
well what's wrong with that men are
always staring at us why can't we stare
at theirs
john barnes has got a nice bum oh yeah
but that's not what i'm talking about i
mean you think somebody a male or man
will know that black people don't
photocopy well
they're probably all the same gear so
they've only got one don't be stupid oh
come on gloria you've been looking at
these for over a week now
i dunno look i'll tell you what you
close your eyes pick out free
we'll go around to denise's and she can
help us pick out mr wright
all right hang on whichever one i pick
how will i recognize him when i meet him
easy red rose in the lapel it'll wear
one
you'll wear one that's original in it
is getting very good mrs ambrose oh yes
jean-pierre thinks i'm his best student
yeah he says i pick up french very
easily that's not all he wants you to
pick up
gloria he's a nice respectable teacher
and he's taught me some very useful
phrases oh yeah
like what a tour m
to
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that's great mum what does it mean would
you like to do the washing up
come on come on we all know what you got
what have i got it three five and four
one
i'm not playing you've been cheating
don't be silly you should learn to read
the game
stupid idiot who you calling stupid
idiot you stupid idiot
at least i'm not as stupid as you look
don't y'all play dominoes in africa
in the gambia we play trivial pursuit
you west indians forget that you are
direct descendants
without us you would not exist me no
i'll be very grateful
but i'd be even more grateful if he was
to play the three five
thank you well we better be off if we go
into hackney
why are we going to actually do the
boxing dinner and dance
but i thought it was threatened no it's
definitely happening
actually lads you saw i wickham where so
oh no slow dan look it's all taken care
of there's a coach outside to take your
wife with him
where is he wickham i thought you knew
everything
sure we weren't coming in this no i told
you jersey charlie and my night out i
mean i would
but she don't like to see your box yeah
well when i beat lloyd and become world
champion she's gonna have to watch me
lady yeah lloyd i negotiate
open that gate i don't want to be late
because if i do i have to blame it on
you
before you ask i'll be back at nine i'll
give you my word i'll be right on time
i'm going around the things with my
computer program because tomorrow
morning he's got an exam
um he's paying me money to sort it out
from here because he ain't too clever in
fact it's quite dim
um
oh come on you can't chicken out now
where are you going tonight
we can't rant in aces well get back by
half past 10. dad that's too early well
he came down the road
i know what i'm worried about muggers
rapists and perverts
it's all right we know who they are we
go to school with them
hang on oh lord you're
sure you look nicer
you didn't tell me it was going to hoot
out
i'm going to get changed this baby going
we're
not going anywhere i told you last week
i got a french lesson tonight dressed
like that
i tried to lessons was on mondays
but jump just hear this jump here that i
wouldn't trust a black man with a name
like jumpies
he's taking me to see a french film he
tried to see a dirty flame
it is not a dirty film in any way it's a
good way to learn
to learn what the language you call it
learning a language i call it a date
desmond listen in the 30 years we've
been married
i ever gave you any cards not to trust
me
no i told you before man you shouldn't
remember
but i remember it's just that i forget
oh sorry look i gotta go otherwise i'll
be late
um when will you be back 11 o'clock
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schmidt
who is that it's a burglar wearing
high-heeled shoes on a fur coat
but a front door
what time do you call this i call this
two o'clock in the morning why
what time you called it where have you
been
on the way back from the cinema the car
broke down
jump here phoned the aaa they took ages
well you gotta run
well i didn't know it would have take so
long you told me i'd be back back i'm
desmond
i'm your wife not gloria trying to make
excuses
anyway i don't want to talk no more
about it it was a disaster oh i knew it
would be
what you know desmond what you know
about me
you know what shoe size i take what you
got to do with it everything
i know the size of your shoes the size
of your
neck your chest your waist how you hate
this smell of violent cabbage
and i also know that when i said i was
going to learn french
you thought what a stupid old fool want
to learn french for
i gave up my studies to marry you
remember
so all i may be but stupid i am not
not just because i don't exercise this
body anymore i don't mean to say i can't
exercise this mind
so you better put on your running shoes
otherwise i left you in the starting
blocks
well i don't know if i want to run
anymore
i just want to rest build a house and
they plot a land back home and
retire stop dreaming this one
this is england 1989 and we know nehru
building a house back in a guyana no
than we were in 1969.
you think i ain't gonna make it you
think i am gonna get there
well i'm gonna build that house it was
the last thing i do
even if i don't live there
it would be for the children so they
could know the country of origin the
culture its roots
so that when one day if touchy decide to
throw us out we have somewhere to go to
and that goes for you fooling for
christine
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get it right daley townsend
sorry dearly i forget there was an
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all-arounder
do you remember where we first met um at
your college dance
yeah jazzy d playing in your band
wearing your miles davis sunglasses
you are mr cool
you remember that you mm-hmm
ding dong
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yeah women running shoes
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gloria you can't chicken out now well if
you want to do it so much why don't you
wear it yeah
but gloria is coming to the shop he'll
be here soon well he won't be looking at
me because i won't be wearing a rose
gloria
why 57 and you still drive me wild
oh gentlemen good morning come and do
come in
is everything okay i am cool
how did the fight go did you win when i
scared him so much he didn't even turn
up
what are you gentlemen having the usual
yeah
ah surely three teams toasted and one
coffee please are you all right man i am
cool
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are you sure you're all right man i am
in love
in love in love when did you meet this
woman
last night you sneaky licking no wonder
you didn't want to come to the fire
what's your name where did you meet her
this one number five no no no listen
listen
ah nice her name is shirley
we met at a college dance you can't love
shelly she's your wife
speaking of love i just popped in to say
audra
oh you can't go yet i've only just got
to know you
some other time eh shirley good luck
with your lessons you must come and
visit me in paris sometime right no
thank you
that's me on the romantic weekend in
paris i bet
if i'll give a lift to the airport eh
bonjou cherry
what's he say
oh say some more i love it when you talk
dirty
or watching hold on wait for me i
have cracked it
well there's no point in the same about
now i want to see what i'm missing
excuse me ladies have you seen a lady
wearing a red rose
can i help you gloria
oh you're even more beautiful than i
imagined
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do
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ah
you