You know you've got it coming;
I'll tell it to you straight.
I'm coming for you very soon;
I'll never hesitate.
I've come to measure you,
I will fit you up.
I've come to measure you,
Fit you up.

I am John Wayne,
I believe I'm John Wayne.
They call me John Wayne.

You felt the money flowing,
You watched the beast arrive.
You felt your money going away
And tried to skin the lamb alive.
Come to measure you;
Fit you up.
I come to measure you,
Fit you up.

I am John Wayne;
I am John Wayne.
They tell me I am - the John Wayne.

Coming very soon,
I'm coming for you.
Any day now...

Don't you dare look behind you,
For you know I will be there.
You'll feel my breath on your neck,
Turn, face me if you dare.
I've come to measure you;
I've come to fix you up.
I've come to measure you,
Fix you up.

I am John Wayne.
I believe I'm John Wayne.
You know, my name is John Wayne.
Get on your horse!

Measure you,
This man has come to measure you, measure you, measure you,
Measure you.
This man, this man and that man come to measure you.

I say, measure you,
Coming inch by inch like a marigold line;
Smiling inchworm like a marigold line
Inch my way, measure you,
Measure you, measure you.
I come to measure you,
I come to measure you;
I come to measure you.
 

John: "I was really pissed off with an ex-manager of mine and I was sitting down writing these very vindictive 'I'll get ya, I'll get ya ...' Then I realized what a self righteous little prick you sound like, this is really stupid, who's the biggest self-righteous twit you can think of? ... And it was John Wayne, so I slid him in to confuse the thing in my own brain."
To get the effect he wanted John insisted on going out and getting completely rat-arsed. By all accounts this feat was achieved in a very short space of time, completing the song in one take with what John describes as his: strangled duck vocal. Island agreed with a mean 12" dub version in the pipeline, which Island America pulled for fear of legal repercussions arising from the use of the name John Wayne.(From Big Funn: Homepage of the John Martyn  Appreciation Society)