| The Isle of Man
rx RSM's with purple necks
where are the wierdoes, thugs, and louts
authority its use perverts
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Bunch of Twigs
in the isle of man there are no louts
old men with purple necks
sweet little fifteen on a summer hike
LYRICS © JOHN COOOPER CLARKE |
The answer is because a) they seem pretty similar, b) one appears in the book Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, and c) the other appears on the album Où est la maison de fromage, s’l vous plait. Are they same poem, slightly reworked at some point? Which is the definitive version? Is there a definitive version? I don't know.