Young versus Old in Irwell Road (Little Hulton, Salford)
¶ 1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Down our Little Hulton Irwell Road,
¶ 2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 it’s: ‘Young versus Old’.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Us lads don’t want to play with toys,
¶ 4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 we want to play football and make a noise.
¶ 5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 We play from morning till night;
¶ 6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 sometimes under the street light
¶ 7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 and sometimes in the garages
¶ 8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 for our real ‘championship games’.
¶ 9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 but Mrs Harrison tells us to move
¶ 10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 and calls us all kind of bad names…
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 ‘I’ll let you know..I don’t approve!
¶ 12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 and she even threatens to keep our ball
¶ 13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 if it goes over her garden wall.
¶ 14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 I sometimes wonder
¶ 15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 if these ‘old fogies’ ever played football in the road?
¶ 16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 and how can we ever make it,
¶ 17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 if we don’t have the chance to fake it?
¶ 18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 We want to pretend we’re Bolton, United or City
¶ 19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 in fact whoever we ‘wanna be’…
¶ 20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 we just want to be free to play football in the road.
¶ 21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 Old folks if only you’d come and see
¶ 22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 us boys play football in the street
¶ 23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 you’d see real talent at every poor lads feet,
¶ 24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 you’d see Bolton beat United six three
¶ 25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 and players like Shaun, Andy, Kevin and me.
¶ 26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 To us there is nothing better than…
¶ 27 Leave a comment on verse 27 0 playing football in our Irwell Road.
¶ 28 Leave a comment on verse 28 0 Please don’t stop us because you’re old!
¶ 29 Leave a comment on verse 29 0 by Simon Icke
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