I walked in here off the dirty mile Swaggered in with the prison style Aching bones and dirty feet Needing of a bed and something to eat I played for you and I played it right I've sang in tune and I've danced all night I looked at you as the only one I didn't know that it had come undone Oh, and I hit the road when I was 15 When my mother died and my dad got mean Been locked up since 21 And I was my mother's only son Forgotten most through the early days Then 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 old town somehow I've been drinking all the wrong things all night Thinking about what I got to do to survive this life, hey Ooh-ooh-ooh yeah Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh yeah