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Artist: Ian Dury
Canonical path: /ian-dury/rough-kids
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Rough Kids
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Rough Kids
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Rough kids play rough games and kick tin cans
Leave their feet out in the aisle
Rough kids have bother and make nuisance
They climb on someone else's fence
Rough kids give m-m-m-m-m-mama no obedience
You know, you know, they've got no sense
Enough, (enough), enough, (enough)
So rough, so tough
Rough kids move supreme and disobey
Trouble comes when times are tough
Rough kids move in teams, don't play away
They go round knocking off some stuff
Rough kids let off steam and go astray
Enough, enough to be so rough
Enough to be rough kids
Enough to be rough kids
Enough to be rough kids
Rough kids!
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Ian Dury performs "Rough Kids", and this lyric page sits inside the Ian Dury catalog on LyroVerse.
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