Pat Mooney – drums
- backing vocals
Tristan O’Malley – bass
- electric guitar
- backing and harmony vocals
Michael Barclay – piano
- synthesizer
- backing vocals
Dave Withers – acoustic guitar
- vocals
Recorded by The Clagg Brothers – Jon Halliwell and Victor Woltors at Manitoba Street
Produced by Dave Withers and The Claggs
Mixed by The Claggs and Dave Withers
The song was originally released on the compilation Work Songs by Drog Records

Lyrics

Here Comes the King
Words and Music by Dave Withers © 2021

Put another nail in your rocket
hear the silver singing in your pocket
buy some worlds, buy some girls,
and buy this town

Get a leg up, up the ivory tower
get the payback, work the extra hours
You'll be King man
but you ain't nothing now

Here comes the King
red carpet and rings
Here comes the King
he's got everything

Fancy cars, funky stores, pricey rocks
country homes, fucked up rules,
swimming pools, suffers fools,
trophy wives, concubines,
daggers, knives, daggers, knives

Here comes the King
red carpet and rings
Here comes the King
he's got everything

Litigation, institutions, isolation, distributions,
third world nations, degradation, destitution,
mass pollution, greed and war
greed and war, greed and war

Here comes the King
red carpet and rings
Here comes the King
he's got everything

Put another nail in your rocket
hear the silver singing in your pocket
buy some worlds, buy some girls,
and buy this town

Get a leg up, up the ivory tower
get the payback, work the extra hours
You'll be King man
but you ain't nothing now

You'll be King man
but you ain't nothing now

You'll be King man
but you ain't nothing now