The Pressure Boys

by Clive James and Pete Atkin

Here come the pressure boys
Boys of aggressive joys
Fellows with lantern jaws
Shoulders like foundry doors

Here come the pressure boys
Eager to shake your poise
Hands like a panther's paws
Eyes like reactor cores

Soldiers of dreadful night
Kick, tickle, scratch and bite
Go like a bird in flight
Stay like potato blight

Here come the pressure boys
Smashing up all your toys
Laughing at parking laws
Sticking up liquor stores

Troops of the ultra-right
Nightmare and quaking fright
Touchy like gelignite
Uptight and outasight

Here come the pressure boys
Making their fearful noise
Singing like power saws
Smiling like lobster claws

Here come the pressure boys
Here come the pressure boys
Here come the pressure boys
Here come the pressure boys