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English Boy (Reprise)
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Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
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Miscellaneous
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English Boy (Reprise)
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I was an English boy
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I was brought up right
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You cold hold me down
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And I would bite
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I knew no fear
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I served with joy
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I was proud to be here
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An English boy
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You spray like a tomcat
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Piss like a stray dog
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Swear like a sailor
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Speaking in gang tongues
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Kicking in chorus
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Stabbing to order
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Slashing like a blind man
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Lost like a soldier
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I was an English boy
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Precisely made
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You could pin me down
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I was not afraid
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I showed no fear
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I served with joy
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I was so proud to be here
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An English boy
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Blurred like a movie
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Gray under streetlights
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Gray in the sunshine
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So black on the tube line
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Red on the touchline
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Moving like a fever
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Spreading like an oil slick
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Thicker than a house brick
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I was an English boy
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I was brought up right
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If you raised your dress
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Then I would bite
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My voice was clear
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I had perfect poise
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Was good to be down here
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With all the English boys
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And I don't know where I am now
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Or where I'm gonna go
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I keep going round and round on the circle line
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Like some demented kind of commuta
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Trying to avoid paying for my ticket
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I'm a lost soul
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I read about myself in the newspapers
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I'm a pig
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I'm a thug
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I've got nowhere to go but down
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(guitar solo)
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Stand up, when I'm talking to you boy
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Stand up, when I'm talking to you boy
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Stand up, stand up, stand up!
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Stand up!
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(etc)
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Slow like a prejudice
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Broken like hatred
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Kicking at a dead man
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Cut pieces to pieces
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Marking your territory
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Freezing the future
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Stopping the stopwatch
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I am despairing
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I was an English boy
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I was brought up right
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You could hold me down
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And I would bite
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I knew no fear
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And I served with joy
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I was proud to be here
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An English boy
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I was an English boy
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yes I was
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I was an English boy
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(repeat 7 times)
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