The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Riot On Broad Street (Guitar)

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My father once told this to me, Boston's gritty history

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Another ruthless battle in a useless holy war

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Handed down discrepancies and tensions that'll never ease

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One early afternoon on broad street, it blew up down there for sure

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Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough

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And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap

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You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

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Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap

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The Boston fire fighting volunteers, on their way to fight a fire somewhere

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Met a funeral procession proceeding way too slow

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A brownstone burns out of control, we need to lay to rest this soul

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Loggerheads on broad street, eye to eye and toe to toe

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Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough

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And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap

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You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

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Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap

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Riot down on broad street, hand me a brick, stick, a picket, bottle, axe or cobblestone

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Riot down on broad street, and if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone, I won't go down alone

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And when the fight was over they retired to the Clover

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Silver Dollar, Thirsty Scholar, whatever pubs they had back then

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A brownstone was in ashes, broken bones and bloody gashes

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And a casket sat on broad street 'til the sun came up again

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Broad street's just not broad enough and you just don't love God enough

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And if that isn't odd enough we've taken too much crap

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You've pushed us round the sod enough, we've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough

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Poked, provoked and prod enough, something's gonna snap

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Riot down on broad street, hand me a brick, stick, a picket, bottle, axe or cobblestone

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Riot down on broad street, and if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone

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And if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone

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And if I'm going down, hell, I'm not going down alone

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There's a Riot down on broad street, there's a Riot down on broad street

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There's a Riot down on broad street, there's a Riot down on broad street