You Don't Need a License for That

You Don't Need a License for That - George Formby

Written by：George Formby

If you've a pub or a small hotel

You need a license for all you sell

Huh you may think I'm romancing

But they even tax you for singing and dancing

You need a license whatever you do

One or two things they've exempted it's true

Lumbago the gout or a touch o' the' flu

You don't need a license for that

Now I've got a license for chickens to lay

One of them sat on a brick yesterday

And then started clucking as much as to say

He he you won't need a license for that

We've had a good time

A wines in the wood time

If it were duty free

We'd cut the taxes

With our battle axes

Then roll out the barrel for me

There is much license you bet on your life

If you keep a cow then there's trouble and strife

As farmer dean said when he looked at his wife

By gum I'll not need a license for that

You need a license for shooting down game

But I'd rather flirt with a beautiful dame

'Cause I get the sport with the birds just the same

And I don't need a license for that

We sit in the pictures as warm as a glove

In the back row of the circle above

Two bobs' worth of dark and a basin of love

And I don't need a license for that

We've had a good time

A wines in the wood time

If it were duty free

We'd cut the taxes

With our battle axes

Then roll out the barrel for me

Fishing at Richmond is licensed by law

A chap to his girl said now you hold your jaw

He he you know exactly what I'm fishing for

And I don't need a license for that no sir

And I don't need a license for that