Lyrics Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Tattoo

Me and my brother

Were talking to each other

'Bout what makes a man a man

Was it brain or brawn

Or the month you were born

We just couldn't understand

Our old man didn't like our appearance

He said that only women wear long hair

So me and my brother borrowed money from mother

We knew what we had to do

We went downstairs past the barber and gymnasium

And got our arms tattooed

Welcome to my life tattoo

I'm a man now, thanks to you

I expect that I'll regret you

But the skin-graft man won't get you

You'll be there till I die

Tattoo

Now I'm older

I'm tattooed all over

My wife is tattooed too

A-roody-to-to

Rooty-tooty-to-to

Rooty-tooty-to, tattoo too

To you