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In the earliest days of my shop-lifting career
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You could safely say I was filled with fear
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It was nail-biting work from the very start
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But several quick successes soon gave me heart
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After a while I could pick and nick with ease
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Some shirts and trousers and a few LPs
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No one ever stopped me, they didn't seem to care
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And sometimes it seems to me, there was no one in there
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Then a fine summers day my mate Ted and me
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Set off down the west end on our usual spree
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Things were as normal for an hour or so
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Then my nimble hands were a bit too slow
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Two store-detectives made a fast approach
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One grabbed my jacket, (you're nicked, haha!) the other grabbed my troat
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"So we caught you at last", one said with joy
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"Been after you some time, my light-fingered boy"
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If only I'd remembered my common sense
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They captured me red-handedly with evidence
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If I go to the manager and say I'm sorry
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Maybe he'll forgive me for my youthful folly
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"But - but what will the social worker say
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If - if I don't come home today?
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He'll gimme a clout
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What if they don't let me out?
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I told him I'm on me own
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Don't they understand I'm from a broken home?"
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I'll tell them I'm the product of a broken home
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And I always went out on my own
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Was it too late to say I'd pay
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And I'll never steal again till the end of my days?
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Because I had no friends to call as such
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Money and possessions I did not have much
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So I started to steal in order to get by
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The quickness of the hand deceives the eye
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Deceives the eye
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