The Dodgy Measures - Cock of the walk Lyrics

I used to know this geezer
He was Cock of the Walk
A silver tongued charmer
He could really talk the talk
He'd convince you that white was black
And then that black was white
He kept his eyes upon the prize
And kept his goals in sight
He was Cock of the Walk
Thought he was Mr Major League
A big fish in a small pond
Saw himself as the Big Cheese
He was Cock of the Walk
The Head Honcho
A real someone in this town
Not just your average Joe
With his peacocks strut
He'd prowl around the town
Giving all the girls the glad eye
As he'd look that them up and down
He thought he was God's gift
With his tall, snake hipped figure
Full of swagger and bravado
His ego couldn't get much bigger
He was always getting into trouble
So he moved from town to town
And while he was young man he never
Gave a though to settling down
He had a penchant for the ladies
And had a girl in every port
With them he had a string of children
To whom he never gave a penny or a thought
He was Cock of the Walk
Thought he was Mr Major League
A big fish in a small pond
Saw himself as the Big Cheese
He was Cock of the Walk
The Head Honcho
A real someone in this town
Not just your average Joe
But as the years passed him by
He found this world got so much colder
It's wasn't so easy to charm the girls
When he was grey and looked so much older
And in the end all that he was left with was
A mouth full of rotten old teeth
And an eiderdown made of soil and turf
That he was buried six feet beneath
No longer Cock of the Walk
No longer Mr Major League
A belly up fish in a small pond
He smelt like a rancid old wheel of cheese
Not even Cock of the Walk
Or the Head Honcho
A real no one in this town
He was dead as an old dodo