Upminster Kid Lyrics - Live At Rockpalast 1978 - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

When I was fifteen I had a black crepe jacket and sideboards to my chin 

I used to go around in a two-tone Zephyr with a mean and nasty grin 

Twelve-inch bottoms on my stardust flares and socks of dazzling green 

Well Gene Vincent Craddock remembered the love of an Upminster rock 'n' roll teen 

Well the silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down, oooooh 

With a silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down 

Amazing that the feeling's still around 

My good friend Friar wore a powder-blue suit with criss-cross lurex thread 

He turned seventeen bought a big motorcycle and started wearing leather instead 

I could not afford a ruby snaffle tie or black suede clubbing shoes 

Well Gene Vincent Craddock, the people still move 

over when the Upminster Kid walked through 

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With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down, oooooh 

A silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down 

Amazing that the feeling's still around 

Sunday afternoon at the Romford Geumont, alternte version 'strolling 

down the road with my tight-sweater baby' 

rum and black at the Bell Hotel 

He? d strole into the park, for a chumber in the dark, little juvenile never-do-well 

He'd run a steel comb along the Regent jukebox, a little bit of thieving now and then 

Well Gene Vincent Craddock remembered to look on an Upminster kid again 

alternate version well Gene VIncent Craddock i surely wish i were a Upminster Kid again 

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Well the silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down, ooooh 

The silver-dollar hairstyle been cut down 

Amazing that the feeling's still around 

With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down 

With a silver-dollar hairstyle, been cut down 

Amazing that the feeling's still around