Some for the people that think this is a nice little song, no! It's a street working class song, not some yuppie middle class crap. Johnny the Fox is also their the seventh studio album, which they have a song named "Johnny." I think the line "If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them" refers to Football hooliganism. Johnny I think refers to Johnny the fox, which I think Johnny the fox was a member of the QSG but I'm not sure. Phil's mom Philomena ran a hotel in Manchester which people say was a shebeen, which the gang would sometimes hang out at. A person I talked to said Dino's Bar and grill was in Whitworth st. " 'Every street gang in the whole western world can identify with 'The Boys Are Back In Town,' he claims."Ĭase closed! This song is about a Street gang in Manchester called the Quality Street Gang and Manchester United supporters. He reckons the message is pretty universal." It was inspired, he says, by both Manchester United supporters and a bunch of Manchurian tearaways called the Quality Street Gang. Them wild-eyed boys that had been away Haven't changed, had much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy They were askin' if you were around How you was, where you could be found I told 'em you were livin' downtown Drivin' all the old men crazy The boys are back in town (the boys are back in town) I said (the boys are back in town. He lived in Moss side, Manchester before moving to Ireland.Įxcerpts from an article that appeared in New Musical Express, April 9th, 1977 about the song "The Boys Are Back In Town." Phil wrote this song about a street gang called the "Quality Street Gang" and about Manchester United supporters, which he was a Manchester United supporter. Then other trying to say a SC man wrote this.sad. Song MeaningAll of you idiots are WRONG!! Dummies from America trying to calim he wrote this about Military in SC lol idiots.
The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song The drink will flow and the blood will spillĪnd if the boys want to fight, you better let 'em If that chick don't want to know, forget her
The tour featured the Black Rose line-up of Lizzy - singer/bassist Phil Lynott, plus. Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face Recorded during Thin Lizzy s first Australian tour in 1978 (at a huge festival), Boys Are Back In Town was released for the first time in America through Rhino nearly 20 years after the actual concert (it was available as a Japanese import for years). You know that chick that used to dance a lotĮvery night she'd be on the floor, shakin' what she got On this page, hear how Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy sounds like Kiss: Detroit Rock City. But man, I still think them cats are crazy Browse 1000s of songs that sound like other songs.
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