Old Fitzroy

I walked in here off the dirty mile

Swaggered in prison style

Aching bones and dirty feet

Needing a bed and something to eat

I played for you and I played it right

I sang in tune and I danced all night

I looked at you as the only one

I didn't know it could come undone

Well I hit the road when I was fifteen

When my mother died and my dad got mean

Been locked up since twenty-one

I was my mother's only son

Forgotten most through the early days

But I remember what she used to say

Little boy you're my pride and joy

You're the only good thing about old Fitzroy

I feel the walls are falling down around

It makes me loathe that town somehow

I've been drinking all the wrong things all night

I've been thinking about what

I've got to do to survive this life, this life

I feel the walls are falling down around

It makes me loathe that town somehow

I've been drinking all the wrong things all night

I've been thinking about what

I've got to do to survive this life, this life