Miles Wootton - Skinheads

Описание: My friend Tim's music blog Electric Groovebox has a great post about Miles Wootton's song "Skinheads" from 1970. The words and melody will be very familiar to anyone who listens to Oi! music.

Original Post:
http://electricgroovebox.blogspot.com...

Follow-up (including response from Miles himself):
http://electricgroovebox.blogspot.com...

Lyrics:

Walking down the high streets
with a dozen pals or more
looking for some aggro
cause life is such a bore

We came across this greaser
and he tried to run away
so we kicked his silly head in
just to pass the time of day

with our great big boots
and great long laces
jeans held up
by scarlet braces

don't get in me way
or I'll take you for a ride
there's nothing on the top of me head
and there's even less inside

I often go to football
and it really is a laugh
we usually get some bovver in
before the second half

we have ourselves a smashing time
we have a lot of fun
especially when the odds is ours
by 95 to 1

with our great big boots
and great long laces
jeans held up
by scarlet braces

come and join the party
come along with us
we never walk alone
cause we are so gregarious

Well I wake up every morning
and have me ready/reggae? brek
thump me dear old mother
and I nearly break her neck

saunter into town
and kick a pensioner or two
and I put fruitgums in the meters
well it's something else to do

with our great big boots
and great long laces
jeans held up
by scarlet braces

every phone for miles around
is smashed to smithereens
and now I'm going out to find
some cigarette machines

And when I go to heaven
and the angels start to call
I'll go there on me scooter
and I'll take me boots and all

I'll take me broken bottle
and me lump of lead as well
and I'll give them so much bovver
that they'll send me down to hell

with me great big boots
and great long laces
jeans held up
by scarlet braces

I know I'll find some bovver there
Just the kind I like
cause the devil is a greaser
and he rides a motorbike