I am so English
I never had no hoes
No jumping joes
No drive by blows
In my local estate where, god knows,
I deigned to go
Roughing it, slumming it
With the mother fucking G.I posers
In their faux army costumes
Make you wanna consume
The exhaust fumes yo
No I never had the bitches
All we had were rhynes and ditches
Making dens in the hedgerows
Down St Mary's road yo!
Never had no shootings
Just Matthew Bennet with his mountain bike
and loose shoe strings
He told us he had a self-balancing handle bar
But he had rolled up balls of clay so they rattled in thar
Playing cops and robbers on the curb
Never messing with no herb
We never turned any tricks
Only skate boards and scalextrics
Never shot no breeze
Only climbed in the apple trees
I only wanted to be good
Looking out for my neighbourhood
Then my friend said yo can you dig it? I said " I dug"
He said -What you wanna be litter bug
For?
He said it when he came into the hood
Where I used ride with Matthew Wood
And the boys from Down's Orchard estate
Yeah the were rebels acting like jail birds outside their front gate
But I knew the Kirlegate estate posse
Were a match for those carboard hussies
No we never had no guns
Except the water pistols
That we got from our mums, yo!
Got from our mums
We never had no bronx, the bloods or the crips
But what we had was Millbatch, Bradley James, Charlene Hares
Who sometimes wore jeans with rips
That was where you went if you wanted to catch
A tennis ball to the head
Come out in bumps
That was the mother fucking dumps
Instead we had fields to run in and play soldiers
We had peat mounds to climb and roll down and over
We had play fights that never amounted to much
Until one day love struck, put a spanner in the works
Because then we all had to grow up
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