Can anyone identify these lyrics?

[RED-DOG]

I can't place them and it's doing me ead in.


"I'm in love with the girl from the sanwich centre, if she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.."

[Sark79]

is it the music from the SUBWAY advert?

[ifm]

the late great Ian Dury and his blockheads, geraldine

[thetank]

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Geraldine

Just too slow

[Colchester Kev]

Its Geraldine.. By Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre
If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her
There isn't any secret to my frequent visits
It's the way she makes them and they're all exquisite

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre
I'm enamoured of the magic of her fresh polenta
My temperature rises and my pulses quicken
When she gets cracking with the coronation chicken
Geraldine, Geraldine

I know there's much more to life than the physical side
And I should put these thoughts on hold
But when she buttering my baguette
My blood runs hot and cold
Geraldine, G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Geraldine
Geraldine, G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre
I'm living for the moment that I next frequent her
In beauty's eyes beholding my inamorata
As she works her wonders on a dried tomato
Geraldine, Geraldine

I know there's much more to life than the sensual side
And the spiritual should come first
But when she's buttering my baguette
I think I'm going to burst
Geraldine, that's the nicest badge I've ever seen
Geraldine, you make the world seem fresh and clean
Geraldine, G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Geraldine
Geraldine, G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G

[RED-DOG]

Thanks guys, I'll be singing it all day now

[Jim-D]

Thanks guys, I'll be singing it all day now

Whilst winning the Laddies sunday lunch?

[RED-DOG]

Thanks guys, I'll be singing it all day now

Whilst winning the Laddies sunday lunch?

I don't know about winning it, but I'll be in there flailing around.

[tikay]

Easy peasy.

Geraldine, by Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

Incidentally, did he pass away? A truly brave man.

[RED-DOG]

Easy peasy.

Geraldine, by Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

Incidentally, did he pass away? A truly brave man.

Unfortunately, yes. He shuffled off this mortal coil. He lived his life on his own terms though, and left a great legacy.

[ifm]

Apart from spastic you mean, though it was well intended.

[ifm]

Just to explain, Ian Dury did a song called "spasticus Autisticus" to highlight problems for disabled people and it backfired a bit when it was banned by a load of radio stations and record shops.

[RED-DOG]

Apart from spastic you mean, though it was well intended.

No, I didn't mean apart from spastic, If I had, I would have said so.

No offence Ian, it just surprises me when people tell me what I mean 

[ifm]

No probs, i thought the song was a lowlight in his career.

[tikay]

Just to explain, Ian Dury did a song called "spasticus Autisticus" to highlight problems for disabled people and it backfired a bit when it was banned by a load of radio stations and record shops.

And, too see this in context, you'd need to be aware that Ian had quite severe personal disabilities. In the age in which Ian was bought up, he would have been described as a "spastic". He was hugely influential in raising the awareness that folks with disabilities should not be discriminated against, so it was a bit odd that his music highlighting this was banned by Radio 1!