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Smiling Casualty

from Sure by Tommy Mackay

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Someone out there who hasn't a care
You'll always be happy
A clown or a fool, a teacher at school
You'll always be happy

You'll always have that cushion to fall back on
You can be relied on to be the smiling casualty

Here comes a bulletin you might have seen
Someone is suddenly branded as brave
Lying in a grave
Some body, suddenly

You'll read about the dangers that he never faced
Just blown up in public for being in the wrong place

If there's a cause, if there ever was
Who was the bad writer
Who wrote the book, who laid down the laws
Who was the first fighter

You must have read something that some nobody wrote
Probably to buy the author a new coat

Give me a cynical old fashioned man
Over a smug, smart swine
Who said that innocence comes in a can
I did. And I bought mine

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from Sure, released June 7, 2023

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Tommy Mackay Edinburgh, UK

Scottish comedy performer and editor of The Daily Reckless - the paper that sings the news.

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