Luyện nghe bài hát The Million - Pound - Semi - Detached

Haven't we come a way
From newly-weds in our flat?
We skimped and scraped every
For a down on our semi-detached.
New towns for all the hopefuls,
A garden with mortgage attached,
Oh, look at us now, sale all agreed, now it's time to the contracts
With the who sold us a million-pound semi.

out of national service,
Demob suits and back and sides,
And saw the bomb sites air-raid shelters,
their families lived all of their lives.
Then the built them a utopia,
pebbledash on the outside, oh,
Look at them now, they've come a way, they are affluent and bursting with pride.
Soon we'll be sitting inside million-pound semi-detached,
Detached, in our semi-detached.
back at the past of this million-pound semi.

Two up two down, a back garden, was the dream,
Two kids, a cat and a dog, was the scheme.
Then the kids both grew up and got and moved out of home,
Then we were again, together alone.
at us now, what are we like,
Sitting alone in our semi-detached?

all taking early retirement, the sum total of all of their lives.
Now the is fat with inflation, immigration has helped us survive.
Once an englishman's was his castle,
Now it's a freehold to buy, oh,
Look at us now, our debts are all paid, and the empire has struck back.
We're the owners of a one-million-pound semi-detached,
So detached in our semi-detached.
A new generation is buying and anew,
And learning by all mistakes the way people do.
Like all the young hopefuls we're buying the future you,
We hope one day we'll understand what you've both been through.
Look at us now, are we like,
Sitting alone, in our million-pound
at us now, what are we like,
Sitting alone, in our million-pound