From 'Johnny Come Home' TV series 1969<br /><br />When I was little you took me aside<br />With a serious look on your face<br />The business, you told me, would always provide<br />Provided we kept in our place<br /><br />Fine words, fine words<br />But turn them into cash<br />Hope is good but help is better<br />Turn it into cash<br /><br />When I was older you shot me a line<br />A Boomtown that lay just ahead<br />The way you explained it, we'd all get on fine<br />Ten minutes after we're dead<br /><br />Fine words, fine words<br />But turn them into cash<br />Hope is good but help is better<br />Turn it into cash<br /><br />Now I'm way past twenty, the time has run out<br />The future's the present for me<br />A quid in the hand is worth two up the spout<br />I'm ready, I'm willing, I'm free<br /><br />Fine words, fine words<br />So turn them into cash<br />Hope is good but help is better<br />Turn it into cash<br />Hope is good but help is better<br />Turn it into cash<br />-<br />
