G C Am
Sheriff Fatman started out in business as a granny farmer
G C Am
he was infamous for fifteen minutes and he appeared in Panorama
G C Am G
Then he somehow got himself on board The Starship Enterprise Allowance Scheme
C Am
With a Prince of Wales award for pushing valium and amphetamines
G C Am
Now he's moving up onto second base behind Nicholas Van Wotsisface
G C Am
At six foot six and a hundred tons the undisputed king of the slums
G C Am
With more alias' than Klaus Barbie the master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
G C Am
Just about to take the stage the one and only hold the front page
G C Am G
Fatman's got something to sell to the capital's homeless
C Am G
At The Crossroads Motelfor the no-fixed-abodeless
C Am G
Where you can live life in style you can sleep in a closet
C Am G
And if you flash him a smile he'll take your teeth as deposit
C Am
There's bats in the belfry the windows are jammed
C D
The toilets ain't healthy and he don't give a damn
Em Am
he just chuckles and smiles and laughs like a madman,
C D
a born again Rachman Here comes Sheriff Fatman
G C Am G
With his valium, amphetamines his sick notes and his phoney prescriptions
C Am G
And just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kitchen,
C Am G
Dead legs and cracked heads Bunk-beds and breakfasts
C A G C Am
Wake up you sleepy headcases check this
G C Am (etc)
G C Am
Moving up now to take the place of Nicholas Van Wotsisface
G C Am
At six foot six and a hundred tons the undisputed king of the slums
G C Am
With more alias' than Klaus Barbie the master butcher of Leigh-on-Sea
G C Am
In a hatchback from Notre Dame, the one and only Sheriff Fatman
G C Am G
In goes another left hook and now I'm losing my patience
C Am G
Someone call up Roger Cook and The United Nations
C Am G
he's buying up houses for hasbeens (help me)
C Am
From Lands End to Southend and Chelsea
C Am
There's bats in the belfrey the windows are jammed
C D
The toilets ain't healthy he don't give a damn
Em Am
He just chuckles and smiles and laughs like a madman
C
Ladies and gentlemen,I give you . . .
D A
SHERIFF FATMAN!
D A etc
