Uncle Dad Lyrics

He comes knocking on a Friday night

With a box of Black Magic and a bottle of white

And if she's with him, she waits outside

Watch her do her lipstick in the passenger light

Mum gets quiet, mum gets sad

She sits in the kitchen, lost in the want ads

Mum, she makes the breakfast, walks us all to school

Works at the municipal swimming pool

It's sad he moved so far away

He's doing up his new house so we can stay

How we smiled, how we laughed

When he turned up in a sports car

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle Dad

He's there without warning, he's gone in the morning

It never gets boring

Uncle Dad

Careful where you tiptoe on the firing range

Gets a little tense at the hostage exchange

Not all the hostages want to go

I'm the peacemaker and I go with the flow

Out to the car and in the backseat

On with the seatbelt, out with the sweets

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle Dad

He's there in the driveway, blimey, it's Friday

His car's so untidy

Uncle Dad

I remember once when he came in for a drink

And he was there in the morning

Sitting in the kitchen with a mug of instant coffee

Yawning

Mum was smiling when we went to school

Later she was in mourning

It's always presents and it's always treats

Back home it's TV and it's just repeats

She says he thinks that life's one long cartoon

He wishes Mum would get a boyfriend soon

Yeah we like her, Auntie Jane

But it's great to get home again, though

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle

No one's quite as much fun as Uncle Dad

He's there without warning, he's gone in the morning

It never gets boring

Uncle Dad