Possible Clues:

• Clean hands, so to speak
• In no sound money, pure and simple
• Engineer in pub, formerly the subject of Blake's songs
• Pub gets round churches, maintaining direction sung by Blake
• By the sound of it, without meaning to be pure and simple
• It's so simple to be in such a penniless state, by the sound of it
• Subject of Blake's songs suggesting lack of conviction
• That's simply in a state of pennilessness, by the sound of it
• That's simple - it's in the way of getting no money, by the sound of it
• Clean hands