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Thread #61062   Message #994765
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Aug-03 - 12:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hersham Boys (not Sham 69)
Subject: Lyr Add: HERSHAM BOYS (from Sham 69)
OK, here's the punk version, just so we know what Shelley is NOT looking for.
(Copied from http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/50517.html)

HERSHAM BOYS
(Dave Parsons, Jimmy Pursey)

Robin Hood, Robin Hood here we are again

Living each day outside the law
Trying not to do what we did before
Country slag with the Bow Bell voice
So close to the city we ain't got much choice

Council estates or tower blocks
Wherever you live, you get the knocks
But the people round here they are so nice
Stop being naughty. Take our advice

CHORUS: Hersham boys, Hersham boys
Lace up boots and corduroys
Hersham boys, Hersham boys
They call us the Cockney cowboys

It's down to the hop for the local girls
They're not beauty queens but they're our pearls
But when you go to bed tonight
Don't worry about us, we're all right. CHORUS

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That's right guvnor Jack the lad
Know what I mean, eh, know what I mean? CHORUS

[Performed by Sham 69 on "The Adventures of the Hersham Boys," 1979, and on several later albums.]