Itinerant Child Lyrics - Ian Dury

I took out all the seats and away I went 

It's a right old banger and the chassis bent 

It's got a great big peace sign across the back 

And most of the windows have been painted black 

The windshield's cracked, it's a bugger to drive 

It starts making smoke over thirty five 

It's a psychedelic nightmare with a million leaks 

It's home sweet home to some sweet arse freaks 

Slow down itinerant child, the road is full of danger 

Slow down itinerant child, there's no more welcome stranger 

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Soon I was rumbling through the morning fog 

With my long-haired children and my one-eyed dog 

With the trucks and the buses and the trailer vans 

My long throw horns playing Steely Dan 

We straggled out for miles along the Beggar's Hill 

And the word came down that we'd lost Old Bill 

You can bet your boots I'm coming when the times are hard 

That's why they keep my dossier at Scotland Yard 

Slow down itinerant child, you're still accelerating 

Slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting 

Itinerant child, don't do what you're doing 

Itinerant child, you'd better slow down 

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We drove into Happy Valley seeking peace and love 

With a lone helicopter hanging up above 

We didn't realise until we hit the field 

There were four hundred cozzers holding riot shields 

They terrorised our babies and they broke our heads 

It's a stone fucking miracle there's no one dead 

They turned my ramshackle home into a burning wreck 

My one-eyed dog got a broken neck 

Slow down itinerant child, the road is full of danger 

Slow down itinerant child, there's no more welcome stranger 

Slow down itinerant child, you're still accelerating 

Slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting