my father once told this to me

Boston's gritty history

Another ruthless battle

In a useless holy war

Handed down discrepancies

And tensions that'll never ease

One early afternoon on broad street

It blew up down there for sure



Broad street's just not broad enough

And you just don't love god enough

And if that isn't odd enough

We've taken too much crap

You've pushed us round the sod enough

We'e scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

Poked, provoked and prod enough

Something's gonna snap



The boston fire fighting volunteers

On their way to fight a fire somewhere

Met with a funeral procession

Proceeding way too slow

A brownstone burns out of control

We need to lay to rest this soul

Loggerheads on broadstreet

Eye to eye and toe to toe



Broad street's just not broad enough

And you just don't love god enough

And if that isn't odd enough

We've taken too much crap

You've pushed us round the sod enough

We'e scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

Poked, provoked and prod enough

Something's gonna snap



Riot down on broad street

Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket

Bottle, axe or cobblestone

Riot down on broad street

And if i'm going down

Hell, i'm not going down alone

I won't go down alone



And when the fight was over

They retired to the clover,

Silver dollar, thirsty scollar

Whatever pubs they had back then

The brownstone was in ashes

Broken bones and bloody gashes

And a casket sat on broad street

'til the sun came up again



Broad street's just not broad enough

And you just don't love god enough

And if that isn't odd enough

We've taken too much crap

You've pushed us round the sod enough

We'e scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

Poked, provoked and prod enough

Something's gonna snap



Riot down on broad street

Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket

Bottle, axe or cobblestone

Riot down on broad street

And if i'm going down

Hell, i'm not going down alone

And if i'm going down

Hell, i'm not going down alone

And if i'm going down

Hell, i'm not going down alone



There's a riot down on broad street (x 4)


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