Stepping out to Angellucci's for my coffee beans
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco Bar
I'm getting a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue
Excuse me for talking I want to marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don't be so proud
You're just another angel in the crowd
And I'm walking in he wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
And my conductress on the number nineteen
She was a honey
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money
Greasy hair easy smile
Made me feel nineteen for a while
And I went down to Chinatown
In the backroom it's a man's world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway gotta duck to eat
Right now feels alright now
You and me we can't beat
And a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her
The deejay he say here's Mandy for ya
I feel alright to see her
But she's paid to do that stuff
She's dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you're walking in the wild west end.
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco Bar
I'm getting a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue
Excuse me for talking I want to marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don't be so proud
You're just another angel in the crowd
And I'm walking in he wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
And my conductress on the number nineteen
She was a honey
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money
Greasy hair easy smile
Made me feel nineteen for a while
And I went down to Chinatown
In the backroom it's a man's world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway gotta duck to eat
Right now feels alright now
You and me we can't beat
And a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her
The deejay he say here's Mandy for ya
I feel alright to see her
But she's paid to do that stuff
She's dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you're walking in the wild west end.
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Here are the correct lyrics.
Stepping out to Angellucci’s for my coffee beans
Checking out the movies and the magazines
A waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco bar
I get a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out now Shaftesbury Avenue
Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you
This is the Seventh Heaven street
Don’t you seem so proud
You’re just another angel in the crowd
And I’m walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
Now my conductress on the number nineteen
She was a honey(she was a honey)
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with money
Greasy greasy greasy hair easy smile
She made me feel ah nineteen for a while
I went down ch ch uh uh chinatown
In the backroom it’s a man’s world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway duck to eat
Just ain't no way--you and me--we can beat
Walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
Now a a gogo dancing girl yes I saw her
The DJ he say here’s Mandy for ya
I feel alright to see her
I feel alright seein' her do that stuff
She’s dancing high an' I move on by
The close ups can get rough
When you’re walking in the wild west end
Its about the wild west, due to the English's love of the American Wild West.
No, its not. though the American Wild West is a highly liked topic in England, this song is not about that. its about an area of London, called the Wild West End, where you can go to pick up a girl. you can do the same thing as the carnival later discribed in Tunnel of Love, and the place Wild West End is also mentioned in the song Expresso Love.
You're both right. The area of London is simply the West End. There's no wild west end. There's a Wild West (in the US) and a West End (in London). He's drawing an analogy between the (long ago) craziness of what you might find in the West End by collapsing the term people use for the wildness of the American West together with it.