Borstal Boys Lyrics

Borstal Boys lyrics

Cell block five, how I hate Bromide

With your coffee in the morning makes you so sterile

The corner gang never made a man of me boy 



You know the walls are tall and the inmates scheme 

There's no one here that’s more than seventeen 

Bet your life there's a riot tonight in the mess hall listen 



A letter from your home town makes you sad 

You read it when the wardens had a second laugh 

He said sentimental rubbish ain't got no place in here boy 



See the years roll on by 

Such a senseless waste of time 

What a way to reform 

Call out your number 

Who's a nonconformer, 

Not me baby, oh yeah



Shakey Brown didn't hang around 

When a Molotow didn't do its stuff 

You went back in there and said it with a sawed-off shotgun



You know Poker Sam couldn't lose a hand

If he did you were hit by a downtown tram 

Or crushed in the path of a moving elevator, elevator 



See the years roll on by 

Such a senseless waste of time 

What a way to reform 

Call out your number 

Who's a nonconformer, 

Not me baby, oh yeah



When I get out, I'll get straight 

If this old world gives me half a break

But, if you see me in the corner with a chip on my shoulder 

Don't blame me, don't blame me baby, no, no 

Got to make a break for the county line