*requeue -- Come on Canada, show love!

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left
These so-called vacations will soon be my death
I'm so sick from the drink I need home for a rest.

We arrived in December and London was cold
We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road
We never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak
Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats

CHORUS:
You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
I've been gone for a week
I've been drunk since I left
And these so-called vacations
Will soon be my death
I'm so sick from the drink
I need home for a rest
Take me home....

Euston Station the train journey North
In the buffet car we lurched back and forth
Past old crooked dykes through Yorkshire's green fields
We were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled

- CHORUS -

By the light of the moon, she'd drift through the streets
A rare old perfume, so seductive and sweet
She'd tease us and flirt, as the pubs all closed down
Then walk us on home and deny us a round

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
I've been gone for a month
I've been drunk since I left
And these so-called vacations
Will soon be my death
I'm so sick from the drink
I need home for a rest
Take me home....

The gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb
The spirits we drank are now ghosts in the room
I'm knackered again, come on sleep take me soon
And don't lift up my head 'till the the twelve bells of noon

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
I've been gone for a month
I've been drunk since I left
And these so-called vacations
Will soon be my death
I'm so sick from the drink
I need home for a rest
Take me home

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 2:10pm PST - requeue requested by submitter calvados.

Hope it makes it this time, I love this tune. I tried sifting it 6 months ago.

I'll requeue this mofo until it rockets into the Sun, don't you worry Zif!

*requeue

Sorry, but the requeue invocation has been removed; you must use promote instead - ignoring requeue request by calvados.

*promote

Post cannot be self promoted by original submitter calvados because calvados does not have enough Power Points.

I seem to have a power point. will this work? *promote !

Invocations (promote) cannot be called by Linz because Linz is not privileged - sorry.

Dammit toaster!

Moving this video to calvados's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

*promote

Post cannot be self promoted by original submitter calvados because calvados does not have enough Power Points.

*promote!!!

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by Zifnab.

Thanks Zif!

i'm not canadian, of course, so i'm not entirely surprised that i've never heard this.

but i am 100% irish, so i have to autoupvote rowdy drinking songs. nice pick.

^Happy to introduce ya 15

*British for content I suppose, so long as nobody thinks I'm talking about SoTW themselves.

There was a problem completing british request.

Wot?

*promote

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Wow. It's been an uphill struggle for this one huh? Such a good tune.

I've done, over the years, at least a couple dozen shows with these guys, mostly at the Fabulous Commodore Ballroom. Until recently (curse you Chapters/Indigo!) there was an independant bookstore downstairs- directly underneath the bouncing dance floor. After a SOTW show, they used to have to pick all the books up off the floor, mostly thanks to this song right here!

^That's awesome blanks, wot's your band?

*happy