I’m a Boy (Live at Leeds)

[Verse 1]

One girl was called Jean Marie

Another little girl was called Felicity

Another little girl was Sally Joy

The other was me, and I'm a boy

[Verse 2]

My name is Bill and I’m a headcase

They practice making up on my face

Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear

Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair

[Chorus]

I'm a boy, I'm a boy

But my ma won’t admit it

I'm a boy, I'm a boy

But if I say I am I get it

[Verse 3]

Get your frock on, Jean Marie

Plait your hair, Felicity

Paint your nails, little Sally Joy

Put this wig on, little boy

[Chorus]

I'm a boy, I'm a boy

But my ma won't admit it

I'm a boy, I'm a boy

But if I say I am I get it

[Verse 4]

Help me wash up, Jean Marie

You can dry, Felicity

Stack the dishes, Sally Joy

Behind them struggles, I’m a boy

[Chorus]

I’m a boy, I'm a boy

But my ma won’t admit it

I'm a boy, I'm a boy

But if I say I am I get it

[Bridge]

I wanna play cricket on the green

Ride my bike across the stream

Cut myself and see my blood

I wanna come home all covered in mud

[Chorus]

I'm a boy, I’m a boy

But my ma won't admit it

I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy

I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy

I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy

Thank you, thank you very much

We'd like to do for you now the a

Little set of numbers, which we call Tommy's parents as you probably read on the musical papers

And if we ever play for any of you before, you probably know this piece of repartee that I'm just about to embark on

It's the story of our mini-opera, and this mini-opera it's something which we did on our second album

And a, in a way for in it's time was adventurous because it was one story, which took 6 different themes of music

And the story, it's about a girl guide who was seduced by an old engine driver

And you know social commentary

John is the engine driver, the seducer

The black ripper

And I play the girl guide

Later

And the seduction takes place while the girl guide's boyfriend is away from home

And she's weeping because he's been away so long

And some of her friends say we have a remedy and you'll hear that chorus, we have a remedy

And the remedy

And the remedy

And the remedy is of course the old engine driver, who's a randy old bastard

And they know that with him, she'll be alright

And that, so what happens is they a

They f, they fornicate

And

What's that?

Pardon

What's that? a little station outside ?

No no no

Trouble always on the back

Always gets off on the wrong stop

Anyway

This seduction it's rather lengthy

And because it's so long the boyfriend, who's is very very late indeed, and he deserves what he gets

Nevertheless He comes in right in the middle of the seduction, and he catches the couple in the act

And I like you now to imagine the scene

Assemble the musicians

And the reason that the seduction takes so long, its because Ivor, as he's an engine driver naturally, doesn't come on time

Uh blimey, it's taking longer than usual

He's looking at his watch he got for his retirement, all covered in soot

Anyways, and he comes, the boyfriend catches them

All over me best

But instead of rebuking them, duly

Instead of duly rebuking them, as it was ahead of its time, and remember this was three years ago

We anticipated the feelings of peace and love, and pacifism and all that kind of thing, which were to come

Represented as, represented as the ending

And such, such is life, he forgives them

He sees them, and he forgives them

He loves to watch that sort of thing

Anyway, we'll get on with it now

And welcome you to the show next time

And this is, we do feature normally, we'll normally feature Keith Moon singing, but today we'll just have to feature him

If you would like to stand Keith

Yes

And it's called A Quick One, While He's away