When We Were Hooligans chords by
Louis Dunford

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Verse 1
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Sometimes I sit and reminisce
about the good old days I miss
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About the days I spent with all my friends
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In fact, I've come to realize those were
the best days of our lives
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Oh, what I'd give to be
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fourteen once again
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But still nostalgia makes me sick,
I feel I've grown up far too quick
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But I can't help thinking 'bout
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back in the days
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When we were the riff, we were the raff,
my pals would wait outside my gaff
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The door would open and you'd
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hear my old girl say

Verse 2
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"Oh, no, he can't come
out to play tonight
He's lucky he ain't dead,
the shite
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He's stole another tenner
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out of my purse
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And so all you boys can piss off home
Don't bell him on his dog and bone
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I swear to God you fuckers
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make him worse"
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But little did she know
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That when she's tucked up,
oh, so tight
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We'd roamed the streets
'til it was light
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Run from old bill all through the night
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Until the day
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We were delinquent little shits
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We were the hood rats
taking sips out of a bottle
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While we sit on your estate

Verse 3

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And life was so simple then

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When we were hooligans

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So off we'd roam into the night,
we'd ride our stolen pedal bikes
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And who's to say where we
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would go or who'd we see
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But still a plan that never failed,
gets on the booze and off the rails
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We'd buy a twenty bag of
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snout with a fake ID
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And all our clobber was on form,
we'd wear the swing made uniform
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Grey tracksuit bottoms, Ralph Lauren,
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we were looking suave
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And all the birds are throwing up cheap
Chardonnay in plastic cups
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Dressed like it's prom night
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but they're pissing in a park

Verse 5
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And it's only 8 o'clock
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But who's to say romance is dead
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She's in the bushes off her head
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With an older boy who stole
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her ped that she adores
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But old Prince Charming's
just a drip
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The smell of Stella on his lips
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Her makeup's run, her tights are ripped
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Her knees    are sore
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And

Verse 6

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girls were so foolish then

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When we were hooligans

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Verse 7
So as the night would carry on,
the joints were rolled and the birds were gone
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As all the boys sat on the benches
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getting stoned
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And as we got high into the night,
you'd hear the sirens, see the lights
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So it's the scum,
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here they come to take us home
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So with a meaty on the way,
we'd throw the booze and the green away
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We'd jump the fence,
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lodge out the park onto the streets
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Oh, hurry up boys, fucking hell, I can't
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spend the night locked in cell
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'Cause my old man and my
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old girl think I'm asleep
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But what a way to end the night,
chased through the streets by flashing lights
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If you can't have it on your toes,
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you're getting torn
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And as the night came to an end,
we lodged the old bill once again
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Before my mum was up,
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I'd slip through the front door
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Oh my, how times have changed

Verse 8
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So as I sit and reminisce
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About those good old days I miss
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So much has changed, sometimes I wish
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I'd not grown old
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They'd call us hood rats, call us scum
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I'd call us kids  just having fun
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We were delinquents who would call
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these streets  our home

Verse 9

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And we believed things would

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be that way forever then

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When we were hooligans

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When we were hooligans

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