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Fifty shillings in old money
Procceds from a paper round
Track one/side one, broken shards
Of backwards psychedelic sound

Clanging daily from my bedroom
Twice before I ran to school
Sudden realisation dawning
That the Beatles weren't as cool

Like Hank Marvin's madder brother
Bird-man of the Goldhawk Road
Broken nails and Rickenbacker
Driving amps to overload

Heroes fit for boys in trouble
Spawn a tough and stubborn breed
So I struggled with a guitar
Til I made my fingers bleed

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
Gawky in his moddy togs
Never heard my schoolboy tributes
Ringing in the breaktime bogs

Never saw the windmill thrashings
Or expert sissor-kicks
As the clumsy teen pretender
Dogged nis Player's No 6



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