The Winter of '79

All you kids that just sit and whine


You should have been there back in '79


You say we're giving you a real hard time


You boys are really breaking my heart


Spurs beat Arsenal, what a game


The blood was running in the drains


Intercity took the trains


And really took the place apart


That was the year Nan Harris died


And Charlie Jones committed suicide


The world we knew busted open wide


In the winter of '79

I'd been working on and off


A pint of beer was still ten bob


My brand new Bonneville got ripped off


I more or less give up trying


They stopped the Social in the spring


And quite a few communists got run in


And National Service come back in


In the winter of '79


When Marco's caff went up in flames


The Vambo boys took the blame


The SAS come and took our names


In the winter of '79

It was us poor bastards took the chop


When the tubes gone up and the buses stopped


The top people still come out on top


The government never resigned


The Carib Club got petrol bombed


The National Front was getting awful strong


They done in Dave and Dagenham Ron


In the winter of '79


When all the gay geezers got put inside

And coloured kids was getting crucified


A few fought back and a few folks died


In the winter of '79

Yes a few of us fought


And a few of us died


In the winter of '79