The Boys Are Back In Town

What are you talking about Loboparamilitary? I have the album and the song was written by Phil Lynott. Are you making it up as you go along. Phil's mother had a pub in Manchester, and a notorious gang called the QSG used to frequent it. They were mostly Irish Mancunians and always getting jailed and when they were released, it was a great source of jubilation because they were so popular. Thats the meaning of the song.

This song is about the boys being back in town, plain and simple. Can't see how you would come to any other conclusion

All of you idiots are WRONG!! Dummies from America trying to calim he wrote this about Military in SC lol idiots. Then other trying to say a SC man wrote this....sad.

Phil wrote this song about a street gang called the "Quality Street Gang" and about Manchester United supporters, which he was a Manchester United supporter. He lived in Moss side, Manchester before moving to Ireland.

Excerpts from an article that appeared in New Musical Express, April 9th, 1977 about the song "The Boys Are Back In Town."

"...one of the few classic street songs. It was 1976's summer record."

"Lynott is proud of this achievement. It was inspired, he says, by both Manchester United supporters and a bunch of Manchurian tearaways called the Quality Street Gang. He reckons the message is pretty universal."

" 'Every street gang in the whole western world can identify with 'The Boys Are Back In Town,' he claims."

Case closed! This song is about a Street gang in Manchester called the Quality Street Gang and Manchester United supporters. A person I talked to said Dino's Bar and grill was in Whitworth st. Phil's mom Philomena ran a hotel in Manchester which people say was a shebeen, which the gang would sometimes hang out at. Johnny I think refers to Johnny the fox , which I think Johnny the fox was a member of the QSG but I'm not sure. Johnny the Fox is also their the seventh studio album, which they have a song named "Johnny." I think the line "If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them" refers to Football hooliganism. Some for the people that think this is a nice little song, no! It's a street working class song, not some yuppie middle class crap.

its not really about the song but when i think of "the boys are back in town" i picture me with my 66 imapla full of mates just cruisin on the open road enjoyin life with the hot sun out, just cruisin, passing everything we come across listening to Phil singin' fuck i luv cruisin

thin lizzy are from ma home town! represtin dublin yo..lol. phil lynott (sp) used to live near my dad. he's dead now. one of the greatest tragedies in irish music. i loooove you phiil

Damn, Thin Lizzy are bloody under rated. they're the best band in all of history. No exaggeration.

One of Irelands greatest bands. Better than U2 in my opinion. Really great song, Its almost always played around christmas when you get home for the holidays. Im sure no one else would but i associate it with that, but i do.

This song is classic. Thin Lizzy is so underated

And another thing its not "But man, I still think those cats are great", its "But man, I still think those cats are CRAZY." I don't care what lyric site you copy and pasted it from, I hear it as crazy over and over again. Even when its live it sounds like 'crazy 'not 'great'.

Can someone please tell me why "Johnny the Fox" is no where to be found? That was a great song(and album) but I guess I'm all by myself on an island.