Hand written by who?

Let's really have some ferocious nit-picking about this 'uniquely' irrelevant sheet of paper. Has Morrissey dotted his i's and crossed his t's? Tell him off, if he slips anywhere 'becuz of is pooor eduktation'.

It's a sign of the times, I guess, when everyone's trying to offload all their supposedly 'priceless' stuff on EBay so they can make the payments now that teaser rate has gone vertical.

Hey! You tried flippin condos. 'Rare' junk on Ebay. Back to flipping burgers. If you're really lucky.

This needs to be shredded and recycled like every other pointless piece of clutter on the planet. The words live on in the song. Who needs this dreck? You do? Careful, you'll end up like Morrissey in a room full of books and records with no friends and then you'll go postal and spend decades blaming everyone else for not getting blow-jobs to The Rubettes at the back of the bike-shed.

Life is so tragic. And brief. A mere whisper within the eternal silence, and so on and so forth.

Next!

how you can listen to a piece of paper? I'll stick to the WEA cd version.

Morrissey has confirmed what we already know: he is the world's most perfect song writer! With the exception of a couple of corrections, he wrote the lyrics to this song almost EXACTLY as they appear in the final, produced recording! They just flowed from the pen!

Give me a break.

There is no freaking way this is the parchment Morrissey used when he penned this song. So, for someone to pay $500+ for a piece of paper on which Morrissey, after the fact, wrote down the lyrics to one of his songs is obnoxious.

all of you people need to stop hating, because if you did own this piece of paper with lyrics scrawled on it. you would probably wank to it every night before sleep. let the bloke sell it to whom ever the fuck he wants. and don't be jealous; because YOU don't have one.

This ain't it. He's got the handwriting of a five-year old. If they're claiming this was hand-printed by Morrissey, it's a fake.

ha ha, i was just waiting to see how many people would be screaming FAKE! at the first sight of it.

LOL.

Where's "beau" from the forums to beat these peeps down??!?

I really shouldn't read the comments to items on here, because it just winds me up. A grimmer, more bitter, more sour bunch of people you'd be hard pushed to meet than you lot. You don't have a nice word for anyone or anything. I remember this competition and wanting to win this (I'm that old). There is no claim that this is the first draft of the lyrics, only that they are written out in Morrissey's hand, which looks genuine enough to anyone who has ever seen his handwriting. I'll keep subscribing to the website because I like reading about Morrissey, but if I were Morrissey I'd like my fans to be a little kinder than the furious, red-faced children who scrawl on the nursery wall in here.

where realfans never would sell a thing from their Ringleader

years ago, whole businesses went trying to sell
memorabilia, and there's always a question is
it real or fake

well as long as I havent see the Ringleader do it,
I won't buy it.

Anyone can print out a real one, the ones who arelisted on several sites, I mean his morrissey
handwriting
If they can paint false van Gogh's, Dali, etc.
a Morrissey handwriting letter is a child job for those criminals on Ebay