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This track has a tongue-in-cheek subject matter. Musically it comes from jazz, rock n roll, and Britsh humour as extolled by the likes of The Kinks, Kirsty MacColl et al.

lyrics

Take a drive out of the city
Suburbia is green and pretty
Tree-line streets and privet hedges
Flower boxed-up window ledges
Boring cars are parked on driveways
Being washed because it's Sunday
Behind those twitching lace-net curtains
Something's going on for certain

On the deep pile shag
Some housewife and nag
Is doing her neighbours' husband
And there's her old man
Cam-corder in hand
Filming it all in widescreen
Form an orderly queue
She's looking at you
It seems you're the next one up to bat
How do you like that?
She's just like the cat
That got the cream

Swingers
They're always doing it
Swingers
If it moves they're screwing it
Swingers
The more the merrier
Swingers
They're so vicarious
Swingers

Village life may be content
Where people give up vices just for lent
Church on sleepy Sunday mornings
The vicar's spouting sinful warnings
Walk the dog, then get on line
See who's about and at what time
Inform the wife, all systems go
Set the video for Antiques Roadshow

Down old country lanes
In leather and chains
On laybys on quiet highways
On the bonnets of cars
Under the stars
Testing the front suspension
There's hoots and there's howls
But that ain't no owl
Just wolves done up in sheeps' clothing
It's animal farm
But no-one is harmed
Except with their permisson

Swingers
They're always doing it
Swingers
If it moves they're screwing it
Swingers
Bring out the tupperware
Swingers
They keep their handcuffs in there

Book a weekend away
With others who play
In a tired old bed and breakfast
Room keys in a bowl
Any hole is a goal
But make sure you switch ends at half-time
A noble national pursuit
For the shaved or hirsute
They really welcome all shapes and sizes
It doesn't have to be grand
Cartwheels or handstands
But stamina wins you prizes

Swingers
They're always doing it
Swingers
If it moves they're screwing it
Swingers
Don;t you know that it's rife
Swingers
It's just a part of the
Rich and varied
Tapestry of life.

credits

released February 11, 2013
Written, arranged and produced by David Simnel
Vocals, pianos, bass, drums, percussion, backing vocals and brass arrangements by David Simnel

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David Simnel and the Pimpernels England, UK

Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from the United Kingdom.
I have a passion for mixing up styles, anything from electro to jazz, punk to classical. I see myself as a crooner for the 21st century.

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