1976 Lyrics

In 1976 I was there
With me platform shoes and me feathered hair
I'd just started shaving I was smooth and I was randy
I'd were High Karate just to send the girls bandy

In 1976 I started working on the post
I was on decent money a lot more than most
I asked my girl to New York I really want to take her
But she didn't want to go so I went with Freddie Laker

In 1976 Concorde, flown
But the yanks tried to ban it cos they wanted there own
I had me first dirty weekend in a B and B
It was a scruffy old dump but it was good enough for me

I bought an old Cortina I was bit of a lad
It was the hottest summer we had ever had
In 1976 we didn't want for nought
Except a bit of water cos we had a drought

We had a maisonette as our family home
Pre Thatcherite years, if only we'd known
And Towyn was the furthest place we'd ever been
I remember watching Rocky on the silver screen
(Don't push me, that's what he said)

We watched on the busses and Robins nest
And whispering bob was on the whistle test
I remember going to Blackpool
And bought myself some clackers
But I threw them in the sea,
Because they hit me in the knackers

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