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You Boys

by Poke O'Swedgers

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Dedicated to Mrs Helen Chappell, with love xx

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We walked down the mile past the Peacock and Alma
At the Tramway we stopped to see our Sugar Mama
“You’re real good boys”, she said seductively;
“And You Boys are almost like nephews to me”.

You Boys - with your cheeky smiles
You Boys - Lotharios and Cryptophiles
We love You Boys - you got a lot of class
One as hairy as Esau - t’other smooth as glass

With your songs of computing and doomed romances
With your white boy grooves and your funny dances
And we love your songs, even though they’re weird
And You Boys can sing (except the one with the beard)

We twinkled and charmed flirtaceously
Half Rab C Nesbitt, half BBC
As we worked our way through a flask of absinthe
Three pints of porter and a crème de menthe.

She said, “I think You Boys have had quite enough
And there’s crisp-crumbs gath’rin’ in your trouser cuff
Stop messing around. Get up there and sing,
and strum and dance your Johnstone fling”.

So we played till the evening was slipping away
We sang of Ada Lovelace and Hemingway
She winked and said, “You Boys - come back soon,
- Any time, Boys – is opportune”

Music and lyrics by © Kev McInally and Dave Banks (2018)

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released April 25, 2021
A single, from the Poke O'Swedgers album "Geneva's Shore"
Music and lyrics by © Kev McInally and Dave Banks (2018)

Kev McInally - vocals
Dave Banks - backing vox and guitars

Mixed and mastered by Steve Swallow

Released as Trousers! Tro-016

ISRC: UK-DVB-21-00001

Photo by Harry Simpson, taken at Libby's Cafe.

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Poke O'Swedgers Chesterfield, UK

Poke O'Swedgers are Kev and Dave. Kev sings beautifully. Dave fumbles around with guitar. They write their own rhapsodies - delicate folk tales of impossible romance, computer programming and quantum physics. Their songs have a slight Scottish tang.

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