Baggy Trousers Lyrics
headmasters breaking all the rules
Having fun and playing fools
Smashing up the woodwork tools
All the teachers in the pub
Passin' round the ready rub
tryin' not to think of when
the lunch time bell will ring again
But did it really turn out bad
All i learnt in school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But did it really turn out bad
trying different ways to
make a difference to the days
all the kids have gone away
gone to fight with next door's school
every term that is the rule
sits alone and bends his cane
same old backsides again
all the small ones tell tall tales
walking home and squashing snails
lots of smells and lots of noise
playing football in the park
kicking pushbikes in the park
baggy trousers dirty shirt
pulling hair and eating dirt
teacher comes to break it up
back of the end of a plastic cup
Baggy trousers
Baggy trousers baggy trousers
Baggy trousers
Baggy trousers baggy trousers
Baggy trousers
It's just so much fun to bounce around to when you feel like letting off some steam!
in the chorus, the second "but did it really turn out bad" should be "but at the time it seemed so bad"..and "kicking pushbikes in the park" should be "kicking pushbikes after dark"...
this song kicks amazing arse! and is amazing to skank to. classic. xx
This song describes being in secondary school perfectly, even down to the way everyone dresses ("baggy trousers. dirty shirt").. In fact, it gets the feeling of being 14 and out to raise hell for fun and profit and makes it into the best ska song ever written. Funnily enough, except the headaster doesn't cane you anymore, nothing much has changed....
This song was written in response to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." The idea being to show the fun side of school I suppose. Speaking as someone who was in secondary education in the seventies, I think both songs are equally valid, it just depended what lessons you had that day. History with a hippy and woodwork with a psychopath.
"gone to fight with next door's school, every term that is the rule"
Yep and we always got our arses kicked! :-(
aw u guys suck.... we fuckin kicked arse ^-^
aw u guys suck.... we fuckin kicked arse ^-^
@Dr Strangelove We were horrible kids ???? on one side our high school had an all boys school and on the other an all girl's .. us co-eds would go around and cause mayhem and start fights .. boys obviously at boys school and girls at the girls school .. I didn't even know what homophobia was and certainly wasn't a homophobic person .. I think it was more to do with they were elite schools with single gender attendance and we paid out on them badly ????
@Dr Strangelove We were horrible kids ???? on one side our high school had an all boys school and on the other an all girl's .. us co-eds would go around and cause mayhem and start fights .. boys obviously at boys school and girls at the girls school .. I didn't even know what homophobia was and certainly wasn't a homophobic person .. I think it was more to do with they were elite schools with single gender attendance and we paid out on them badly ????
@Dr Strangelove We were horrible kids ???? on one side our high school had an all boys school and on the other an all girl's .. us co-eds would go around and cause mayhem and start fights .. boys obviously at boys school and girls at the girls school .. I didn't even know what homophobia was and certainly wasn't a homophobic person .. I think it was more to do with they were elite schools with single gender attendance and we paid out on them badly ???? ( please ignore question marks )
@Dr Strangelove We were horrible kids ???? on one side our high school had an all boys school and on the other an all girl's .. us co-eds would go around and cause mayhem and start fights .. boys obviously at boys school and girls at the girls school .. I didn't even know what homophobia was and certainly wasn't a homophobic person .. I think it was more to do with they were elite schools with single gender attendance and we paid out on them badly ???? ( please ignore question marks )
amazing song by an amazing band...
Best party song ever! Gets everyone in the whole place skanking like idiots lol