Lyric sheets Jackson versus Cocker 1997/8/9
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Your support makes all the difference.The Jackson versus Cocker case defied imagination
In the last years of the Nineties when it ended in elation
Leaving lawyers and accountants comatose for the duration
Having smashed existing records for the longest litigation
It was televised and serialised and beamed up to a nation
Who were paralysed with gratitude and loss of concentration
The foppish adversaries sat in hostile indignation
As their champions thrust or parried this or that denunciation
But undoubtedly the thing which most prolonged the situation
Was the hundred child witnesses thrown into the equation
The presence of a chimpanzee caused further complication
While the crowded public gallery was moist with adoration
Parliament was dragged in when the case for mitigation
Called for Prescott, Blair and Bottomley to add corroboration
But the single biggest factor which preceded culmination
Was the lawyer's needing money and the threat of sequestration
So the pettish two protagonists forgot their disputation
Then divided up the film rights and went out for a libation
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