Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book
It took me years to write, will you take a look
Based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job so I want to be a
Paperback writer.

It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job but he wants to be a

Paperback writer