                    When I wuz a kid
When I wuz a kid we played in the streets
sharing our adventures, our toys and our sweets
We had broomsticks for hosses and guns med of wood
we pretended to be cowboys, pirates, gangsters or even Robin Hood
We were raggy arsed kids who spent our days wearing wellies
we daint have posh things like cars bikes or tellies
We were kids from the back streets who played in the gutters
charging about like dirty faced nutters
We'd play our games like football or cricket
with jumpers for goalposts and lamp posts as wickets
Hide and seek was a brilliant game
with it's "akey one two three whatshisname"
The girls had their own games like skipping with ropes
but us lads daint joint in cuz we daint want to look like dopes
On Saturday mornings we'd be off to the flicks
cheering on our heroes Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers and Tom Mix
Abbot and Costello and the Three Stooges would mek us laff
remember Francis the talking mule, now that was really daft
When the cowboys beat the indians we gave out a loud cheer
and when Lassie got injured we'd shed a secret tear
With colourful pirates we'd sail the Spanish Main
we'd help Casey Jones stop the runaway train
Our make believe heroes could do us no wrong
riding bravely into battle singing a song
The cinema took us away from our every day strife
and for a few hours it gave us a new lease of life
And now I'm grown up with kids of me own
I give out a chuckle when I hear em moan
They are living in houses that are fit for a Lord
with every gizmo and gadget and they still say they're bored
They don't need the cinema and games like we did
I'm sure things wuz better when I wuz a kid.
When I wuz a kid we played in the streets
sharing our adventures, our toys and our sweets
We had broomsticks for hosses and guns med of wood
we pretended to be cowboys, pirates, gangsters or even Robin Hood
We were raggy arsed kids who spent our days wearing wellies
we daint have posh things like cars bikes or tellies
We were kids from the back streets who played in the gutters
charging about like dirty faced nutters
We'd play our games like football or cricket
with jumpers for goalposts and lamp posts as wickets
Hide and seek was a brilliant game
with it's "akey one two three whatshisname"
The girls had their own games like skipping with ropes
but us lads daint joint in cuz we daint want to look like dopes
On Saturday mornings we'd be off to the flicks
cheering on our heroes Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers and Tom Mix
Abbot and Costello and the Three Stooges would mek us laff
remember Francis the talking mule, now that was really daft
When the cowboys beat the indians we gave out a loud cheer
and when Lassie got injured we'd shed a secret tear
With colourful pirates we'd sail the Spanish Main
we'd help Casey Jones stop the runaway train
Our make believe heroes could do us no wrong
riding bravely into battle singing a song
The cinema took us away from our every day strife
and for a few hours it gave us a new lease of life
And now I'm grown up with kids of me own
I give out a chuckle when I hear em moan
They are living in houses that are fit for a Lord
with every gizmo and gadget and they still say they're bored
They don't need the cinema and games like we did
I'm sure things wuz better when I wuz a kid.
