It's Not Too Different

It's not too different ... way down here
The sun's a bit hotter ... It's a good drop 'o beer
It's not too way out ... in a strange sort of way
If ya get a good day's work in ... ya get a good day's pay.
There's just one or two thing's ... that ya have to put up with.
Nothin' too much to handle ... just a little hard to live with
Like the cockroaches ... and lizards, and snakes in the yard.
I've tried to ignore 'em ... but I'm finding it hard.
It's not that they ... want to bother me like.
But when I see 'em, I'd just rather ... Hop on me bike.
If ya can put up with the creepies ... and the big hairy crawlies
and the thing's that go bump in the night ...
where the hall is.
If ya can just turn your back ... on the munchies and bities
That hide in ya jammies ... and creep into ya nighties.
I'd recommend it if ya coming to stay for a spell
To get your injections ... if ya don't it's just hell.
It's lovely down here though ... in the tropical bit.
If ya could just find a place ... where ya could just safely sit!
Please mother-in-law ... It ain't all that bad
And the wife's missing you ... it's driving 'er made
So visit if ya must ... there's not too much to fear
We're all missing you madly ... it's a shame your not 'ere.

Copyright; Robert Oxford - 4th December 1997