tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-22088503009321770012008-03-28T13:34:00.000Z2008-03-28T13:34:00.000ZI'm Darling the nerd, that's me<BR/>Chancellor - you'll have heard of me...<BR/>These eyebrows I'm hiding beneath<BR/>Al, the Finance minister<BR/>Yet they call me Al sinister<BR/>And I'm desperate for bloody relief<BR/><BR/>I walk down the Strand with my tax bag in hand<BR/>Then I walk down again with it hid<BR/>Though I try to disguise the despair in my eyes<BR/>With eyebrows like two funeral wreaths<BR/>I've no airs and graces and know where me place is<BR/><BR/>But I'm without booze so long now<BR/>I've forgotten where my face is<BR/><BR/>....Oh, God!....<BR/><BR/>I'm Al, Al, can I be your pal?<BR/>I'm such a nice bloke underneath.<BR/>But everyone hates me from HM to Rose West, you see<BR/>They call me Minister Al sinister from Leith!<BR/><BR/>I'm Minister Al Sinister, <BR/>Booze tax I administer <BR/>I take off up west for a sup<BR/>I stroll behind dark glasses<BR/>Shit, recognised - what a farce this is<BR/>How long before my game is up?<BR/><BR/>Peer of Lords'n'Ladies<BR/>Yet feel I'm in Hades<BR/>Champagne in the Burlington?<BR/>Nope, I'm kicked out again<BR/>No pub will admit me<BR/>They'll soon have to commit me<BR/>And Paxman keeps angrily barring his teeth at me<BR/>Cos I'm the sinister Minister from Leith<BR/><BR/>Ex-Minister to the Dft<BR/>I smile unconvincingly<BR/>While Stansted's extending me<BR/>Jeer upon jeer...whenever I appear<BR/>My wife's done a flit on me<BR/>Cabinet colleagues, they just sit on me<BR/><BR/>Please, please! Harrass me no more!<BR/>Or the eyebrows I'm hiding beneath<BR/>Please show some respect for<BR/>Minister Al Sinister from Leith<BR/><BR/>I'm Minister Al Sinister<BR/>Creeping along Temple Bar<BR/>Shocked to find Banksy's grafittied my car with:<BR/>'Minister Al sinister is BARRED from every pub and bar'<BR/><BR/>Yet I never swank it<BR/>Pride, I never drank it<BR/>As I sleep on this door step with 'The Mail' for a blanket...<BR/>This hat full of coins by my side<BR/><BR/>I'm the minister who is banned nationwide!Minister Al Sinisternoreply@blogger.com