Ian Dury - Itinerant Child lyrics

I took out all the seats and away I went It's a right old banger and the cha**is bent It's got a great big peace sign across the back And most of the windows have been painted black The windshield's cracked, it's a bugger to drive It starts making smoke over thirty five It's a psychedelic nightmare with a million leaks It's home sweet home to some sweet arse freaks Slow down itinerant child, the road is full of danger Slow down itinerant child, there's no more welcome stranger Soon I was rumbling through the morning fog With my long-haired children and my one-eyed dog With the trucks and the buses and the trailer vans My long throw horns playing Steely Dan We straggled out for miles along the Beggar's Hill And the word came down that we'd lost Old Bill You can bet your boots I'm coming when the times are hard That's why they keep my dossier at Scotland Yard Slow down itinerant child, you're still accelerating Slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting Itinerant child, don't do what you're doing Itinerant child, you'd better slow down We drove into Happy Valley seeking peace and love With a lone helicopter hanging up above We didn't realise until we hit the field There were four hundred cozzers holding riot shields They terrorised our babies and they broke our heads It's a stone f*cking miracle there's no one dead They turned my ramshackle home into a burning wreck My one-eyed dog got a broken neck Slow down itinerant child, the road is full of danger Slow down itinerant child, there's no more welcome stranger Slow down itinerant child, you're still accelerating Slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting