Louis Dunford - When We Were Hooligans

[Intro]

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[Verse]

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Sometimes I sit and reminisce, about the good old days I miss
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about The days I spent with all my friends
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In fact, I’ve Come to realise, those were the best days of our lives,
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Ow what I’d give to be 14 once again
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But still nostalgia makes me sick, I feel I’ve grown up far too quick
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But I can’t help thinking about Back in the days
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When we were riff we were the raff, My Pals would wait outside my gaff
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The door would open and you’d hear my old girl say
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Ow no he can’t come out to Play tonight, he’s lucky he aint dead the shite
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He’s stole another tenner out of my purse
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And So all you boys can piss off home, don’t bell him on his dog & bone
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I’m swear to god you fuckers make him worse.

[Pre-Chorus]

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But little did she know
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That when she was tucked up all so tight,
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we roamed the streets until the light
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Run from old bill all through the night,
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Until The day
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We were Delinquents little shits
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we were the hood rats taking sips
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From the bottle,
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while we sit on your estate

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And life was so simple then,
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when we were hooligans

[Verse]

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So off we’d roam into night, we ride our stolen pedal bikes
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And who’s to say where we would go or who we’d see
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But still a plan that never failed, get on the booze and off the rails
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We’d Buy a 20 bag of snout with fake ID,
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And all our clobber was on form, we we’d wear the swing made uniform
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Grey tracksuit bottoms, Ralph Lorene were looking suave
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And all the birds are tarted up, in Pauls boutique they’re Bronze as fuck
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Dressed like it’s prom night but there pissing in a park

[Pre-Chorus]

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And it’s only 8 O’ clock
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But who’s to say romance is dead,
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She’s in the bushes giving head
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An older boy who stole the ped
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that she adores
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But how prince charming’s just a drip,
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The smell of stellar on his lip
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Her make up’s run Her tights are ripped,
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her knees are sore

[Chorus]

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And Girls were so foolish then
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When I was a hooligan

[Verse]

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So as the night would canny on, the joints were rolled the birds were gone
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As all the boys sat on the benches getting stoned
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And as we got high into the night, you’d hear the sirens see the lights
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So it’s the cozers, here they come to take us home
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So with a meaty on the way, we’d through the booze and green away
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We’d jump the fence, lodge out the park onto the streets
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Ow hurry boys fuckin hell, can’t spend the night locked in cell
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Cos my old man and my old girl think I’m asleep
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But what a way to end the night, Chased through the streets by flashing lights
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if you can’t have it on your toes your getting torn
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And as the night came to an end, we lodged the old bail once again
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before my mum was up, I’d slip through the front door

[Pre-Chorus]

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Oh my how times have changed
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So as I sit and reminisce
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about those good old days I’d miss
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So much has changed I wish
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I’d not grown old
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So call us hood rats, call us scum,
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I’d call us kids just having fun
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We were Delinquents who’d call
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these streets our home

[Chorus]

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And we believed things would be that way forever then
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When we hooligans

*Whistle*

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