Penny Picture Show

Tommy was a brawler in the Penny Picture Show

Fighting cardboard cutouts, saving women made of straw

Every day at work he'd throw his fists of fallacy

And every night he's throwing back quarter-fifths J&Bs

Tommy he'd wear a bowler and make all the ladies swoon

But he's just another pug-nosed pugilist, promising them the moon

And he'd say we all have our roles to play

The gin-soaked cameramen, they're setting up the shots

And the late-night hairdressers, they're out making lipstick love

The lighting crew, they're rigging something for tomorrow's fairy tale