Chris Rea (1951) English singer-songwriter
"The Road to Hell (Part 2)"
Song lyrics, The Road to Hell (1989)
“Look at the children, bloomin' excited,
Ain't it grand to be bloomin' well dead!
Look at the neighbours, bloomin' delighted,
Ain't it grand to be bloomin' well dead!”
Song Ain't it Grand to be Bloomin' Well Dead!
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Look at the neighbours, bloomin' del…" by Leslie Sarony?
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Act I
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
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Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Context: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
“Well, no offense:
Thar ain't no sense
In gittin' riled.”
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Source: Beloved (1987), Ch. 2
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The Deerslayer (1841), Ch. 6
“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”
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