The Winter of '79 by Tom Robinson Band
The Winter of '79 by Tom Robinson Band

The Winter of ’79

Tom Robinson Band * Track #6 On Power in the Darkness

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The Winter of '79 by Tom Robinson Band

Performed by
Tom Robinson Band
Produced by
Chris Thomas
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This song is from the album Power In The Darkness, released in 1978. As such, although the lyrics of this song read like a nostalgic look back at a bygone time, it is actually predicting a near dystopia which, given the industrial unrest of the 1978/79 Winter of Discontent and the social and politic...

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The Winter of ’79 Lyrics

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

The Winter of ’79 Q&A

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The Winter of ’79 was produced by Chris Thomas.

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