[Originally by Billy Bragg]. . Help save the youth of America. Help save them from themselves. Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys. And the Californian girls.
I'm a porter and a night clerk at the old Hot Rod Hotel. I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty-one rooms as well. I wax and shine their boots and shoes.
Hoodoo Voodoo, seven twenty one two. Haystacka hostacka, A be see. High poker, low joker, ninety nine a zero. Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance.
I can see the kitchen light. From the road where I park my bike. But it's dark there as it often is these days. And the gloomy living room. Really needs a dust and a broom.
Help save the youth of America. Help save them from themselves. Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys. And the Californian girls. . When the lights go out in the rest of the World.
I'm never gonna be the handyman around the house my father was. So don't be asking me to hang a curtain rail for you, because. Screwdriver business just gets me confused.
My mother was half English. And I'm half English too. I'm a great big bundle of culture. Tied up in the red, white and blue. I'm a fine example of your Essex man.
I'm a porter and a night clerk at the old Hot Rod Hotel. I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty-one rooms as well. I wax and shine their boots and shoes.
Hoodoo voodoo, seven twenty one two. Haystacka hostacka, ABC. High poker, low joker, ninety-nine-a-zero. Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance. . Blackbirdy, bluejay, one, two, three, four.