Hands Up Billy

  (1)

Hey you think you're a steel chest
You haven't got a steel chest on ya! (2)

Billy with a flat Billy with a phone
Billy with a girl but lives on his own
Billy with some money travels far
Billy gets a loan he can buy a car

Walks into the showroom all I could see
Billy with some money saying take it from me
Before he's even shook my hand I notice that
He chose the car and filled out all the forms as well

Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Fly fly Billy now the bill is up
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!

Hands up Billy
Hands up Billy

After Billy tells you does he know what to think?
Sit her in the car she wants to get her a drink
Take her for a test drive on a fatal street
When she says goodbye she's holding a receipt

Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Fly fly Billy now the bill is up
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!
Some one bring another Billy on!

Hands up Billy
Hands up Billy

Billy is uncomfortable his arms and legs crossed
His head's a little weary he's a little lost
Sit him down and lose some weight he's got the fear in him
Now the doors are open and I'm walking in

Hands up Billy your composure's gone
Hands up Billy got you on the run
Hands up Billy cos you're nicked, crit
Hands up Billy you're the crucifix

Hands up Billy

Hands up Billy he's working off a grudge yeah
Hands up Billy you're walking in a crutch, yeah
 

1. IanFraff submits:

"This all comes from a screenplay that a former bandmate of Wilding's was working on, titled "Hands Up Billy." A hands up Billy, is a hands up punter (Billy Bunter), a derogatory term used by car sales people when someone who's an easy target walks into the showroom. The screenplay was by Jon Tregenna, bandmate with Wilding in Hangar Straight, who'd been working in a car showroom in St Johns Wood at the time. It was subsequently picked up by S4C and made into a Welsh language series. I have a feeling Adam Helal might have played bass in Hangar Straight too."

Dan has found that Treganna did write a sceenplay for a Welsh drama about a car dealership owner named Bili Wheeler which aired, in 2006, under the name Cowbois ac Injans (Welsh for "Cowboys and Engines").

Martin Luther King points out a similarity to Iggy Pop's "Billy is a Runaway."

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2. These first two lines are sung by MES; Neville Wilding, who wrote the song, sings the rest. The idea seems to be that Billy is a sucker.
 

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