All you kids that just sit and whine   You should have been there back in '79   You say we're giving you a real hard time   You boys are really breaking my heart   Spurs beat Arsenal, what a game   The blood was running in the drains   Intercity took the trains   And really took the place apart   That was the year Nan Harris died   And Charlie Jones committed suicide   The world we knew busted open wide   In the winter of '79      I'd been working on and off   A pint of beer was still ten bob   My brand new Bonneville got ripped off   I more or less give up trying   They stopped the Social in the spring   And quite a few communists got run in   And National Service come back in   In the winter of '79   When Marco's caff went up in flames   The Vambo boys took the blame   The SAS come and took our names   In the winter of '79      It was us poor bastards took the chop   When the tubes gone up and the buses stopped   The top people still come out on top   The government never resigned   The Carib Club got petrol bombed   The National Front was getting awful strong   They done in Dave and Dagenham Ron   In the winter of '79   When all the gay geezers got put inside   And coloured kids was getting crucified   A few fought back and a few folks died   In the winter of '79      Yes a few of us fought   And a few of us died   In the winter of '79