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Stiff Little Fingers
Tinderbox
Roaring Boys (Part 1)

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Stiff Little Fingers

Roaring Boys (Part 1)

Release date: 1st June 1997

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About This Track

"Roaring Boys (Part 1)" is a track by Stiff Little Fingers, from the album Tinderbox, released 1st June 1997. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Lyrics

Roaring Boys (Part 1)

Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town

For the train to carry him south

Another drunken night on the town

Messing around

The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys

It's all the same to the roaring boys

They come into town just to make some noise

Oh the life of the roaring boys

Drinking and fighting and acting the fool

Shouting insults and thinking you're cool

Telling lies and believing they're true

Who's fooling who

[Chorus rpt:]

Oh the life of the roaring boys

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Track details

From Tinderbox

1997

Album

Stiff Little Fingers

Release year

1997

—A River Flowing
—In Your Hand
—Hurricane
—Dust In My Eye
—My Ever Changing Moral Stance
—Roaring Boys (Part 1)
—The Message
—Dead Of Night
—Tinderbox
—You Never Hear The One That Hits You
—You Can Move Mountains

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