Nine points on the scoreboard
Last place for me
The contest next year won't be in Helsinki
If I'd been from Ireland
Then now I would be
The biggest star on YLE

The juries must be mad
Even Gina G did bad
They didn't play it fair
(or was the problem with my hair?)
I know I got it wrong
Sang the ending in mid-song
But still I smiled on and on...

Nine points on the scoreboard
Last place for me
Less points than "Bye Bye"
But one more than "Fri"
I should have false started - played on sympathy
Like the final on Fin TV

The juries must be mad
Even Gina G did bad
They didn't play it fair
(Or was the problem with my hair?)
I know I got it wrong - sang the ending in mid song
But still I smiled on and on, on...

Nine points on the scoreboard
Last place for me
But Norway was fab - drink and drugs were both free
Being from Finland
I'd no chance to win
That was left to Eimear Quinn

(bit of head banging and twanging (!) here to the instrumental break.........)

Nine points on the scoreboard Last place for me
The Contest next year won't be in Helsinki
If I'd won - not Ireland
Then now I could be
A famous host of ESC
A famous host of ESC
(Just my guitar, my rose and me....)

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