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I was only a boy when the village I fled,
To some southern flung place all about I had read,
I said give me a year and I'll return again,
Then a year turned to two and then two turned to ten,
Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city,
With many a lover that came and then went,
All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly,
On these rotten streets my best days have been spent,
I was only a boy when to London I came,
Chancing my luck on some fortune or fame,
Well still they allied me, but still I remain,
That dirty old river, it runs through my veins,
Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city,
With many a lover that came and then went,
All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly,
On these rotten streets my best days have been spent,
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Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city,
With many a lover that came and then went,
All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly,
On these rotten streets my best days have been spent,
On these rotten streets my best days have been spent,
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- Forge & Flagon
- Xtra Mile High Club, Vol. 6: Summer In The City
- This Is War
- Cathy
- Trouble On Oxford Street
- Music for Boobies
- Forty Pound Wedding
- Forge & Flagon (Deluxe Edition)
- Forge & Flag On
- Orange Blossom Special 17
- Sunday Best Recordings Sampler
- Xtra Mile High Club, Vol. 8: To the North
- FORGE & FLAGON (Japan Edition)
- Xtra Mile High Club, Vol. 9: Live at the Roundhouse, London
- The Devil, The Heart & the Fight (Deluxe Edition)
- Christmas Calls