George Formby – You Don’t Need a License For That Chords

If you’ve a pub or a small hotel, you need a license for all you sell
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 of 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 won’t need a license for that.

We’d have 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.

Dairies must license you bet on your life,
If you’ve 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 bob’s worth of dark and a basin of love
and I don’t need a license for that.

We’d have 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”.
You know exactly what I’m fishing for,
and I don’t need a license for that.
No sir, I don’t need a license for that