Itinerant Child

Ian Dury And The Blockheads

I took out all the seats and away I went

It's a right old banger and the chassis' bent

It's got a great big peace sign across the back

And most of the windos have been painted black



The windshield's cracked, it's a bugger to drive

It starts making smoke over forty-five

It's a phsychedelic nightmare with a million leaks

It's home-sweet-home to some sweet arse freaks



Slow down itinerant child,

The road is full of danger

Slow down itinerant child,

There's no more 'welcome, stanger'



Soon I was rumbling through the morning fog

With my long haired children and my one eyed dog

With the trucks and the buses and the trailer vans

My long throw horns playing Steely Dan



We straggled out for miles along the Beggar's Hill

When the word came donw that we'd lost Old Bill

You can bet your boots i'm coming

When the times are hard

That's why they keep my dossier at Scotland Yard



Slow down itinernat child,

You're still accelerating

Slow down itinerant child,

The boys in blue were waiting

Itinernat child don't do what your doing

Itinerant child you'd better slow down



We drove into Happy Valley seeking peace and love

With a lone helicopter hanging up above

We didn't realise untill we hit the feild

There were four hundred cozzers holding riot sheilds



They terrorized our babies and they broke our heads

It's a stone fucking miracle there's no-one dead

They turned my ramshackle home into a burning wreck

My one-eyed dog got a broken neck



Slow down itinerant child,

The road is full of danger

Slow down itinerant child,

There's no more 'welcome, stanger'

Slow down itinernat child,

You're still accelerating

Slow down itinerant child,

The boys in blue were waiting