Upminster Kid
Ian Dury & The Blockheads

When I was fifteen I had a black crepe jacket and sideboards to my chin
I used to go around in a two-tone Zephyr with a mean and nasty grin
Twelve-inch bottoms on my stardust flares and socks of dazzling green
Well Gene Vincent Craddock remembered the love of an Upminster rock 'n' roll teen

Well the silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down, oooooh
With a silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down
Amazing that the feeling's still around

My good friend Friar wore a powder-blue suit with criss-cross lurex thread
He turned seventeen bought a big motorcycle and started wearing leather instead
I could not afford a ruby snaffle tie or black suede clubbing shoes
Well Gene Vincent Craddock, the people still move
over when the Upminster Kid walked through

With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down, oooooh
A silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down
Amazing that the feeling's still around

Sunday afternoon at the Romford Geumont, alternte version 'strolling
down the road with my tight-sweater baby'
rum and black at the Bell Hotel
He’d strole into the park, for a chumber in the dark, little juvenile never-do-well
He'd run a steel comb along the Regent jukebox, a little bit of thieving now and then
Well Gene Vincent Craddock remembered to look on an Upminster kid again
alternate version well Gene VIncent Craddock i surely wish i were a Upminster Kid again

Well the silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down, ooooh
The silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down
Amazing that the feeling's still around

With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down
With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down
Amazing that the feeling's still around


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Lyrics by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

  Apples   Back To Blighty   Ballad Of The Sulphate Strangler   Ban The Bomb   Bed O' Roses No. 9   Billericay Dickie   Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself Around London)   Blackmail Man   Blockheads   Broken Skin   Bus Driver's Prayer   Byline Brown   Cacka Boom   Clever Trevor   Clevor Trever   Common As Muck   Cowboys   Crippled With Nerves   D'Orine The Cow   Dance Little Rude Boy   Dance Of The Crackpots   Dance Of The Screamers   Delusions Of Grandeur   Don't Ask Me   Don't Ask Me   England's Glory   Father   Fly In The Ointment   Fucking Ada   Funky Disco (Pops)   Game On   Geraldine   Girls (Watching)   Happy Hippy   Have A Word   Heavy Living   Hey, Hey, Take Me Away   Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick   Honeysuckle Highway   Huffety Puff   I Believe   I Could Lie   I Made Mary Cry   I Want To Be Straight   I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra   If I Was With A Woman   Inbetweenies   It Ain't Cool   Itinerant Child   London Talking   Lonely (Town)   Looking For Harry   Love Is All   Lullaby For Francies   Manic Depression (Jimi)   Mash It Up Harry   Mischief   My Old Man   No Such Thing As Love   O'Donegal   Oh, Mr. Peanut   One Love   Pam's Moods   Pardon   Peter The Painter   Plaistow Patricia   Poo-Poo In The Prawn   Poor Joey   Profoundly In Love With Pandora   Quick Quick Slow   Quiet   Razzle In My Pocket   Really Glad You Came   Reasons To Be Cheerful   Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3   Red (Letter)   Rough Kids   Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll   Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll   Sink My Boats   Spasticus (Autisticus)   Superman's Big Sister   Superman's Big Sister   Sweet Gene Vincent   Take Your Elbow Out Of The Soup (You're Sitti...   Thank You Mum   That's Enough Of That   That's Not All   The (Body Song)   The Badger And The Rabbit   The Call Up   The Mumble Rumble And The Cocktail Rock   The Passing Show   The Roadette Song   The Sky's The Limit   There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards   This Is What We Find   Trust (Is A Must)   Twenty Tiny Fingers Sore Throat Mix   Two Old Dogs Without A Name   Uncoolohol   Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy   Very Personal   Wait (For Me)   Waiting For Your Taxi   Wake Up And Make Love With Me   What A Waste   You'll See Glimpses   You're More Than Fair   You'll See Glimpses   You're More Than Fair   You're My Baby   You're My Inspiration   You're The Why   Your Horoscope

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