Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists * Track #2 On Hearts of Oak
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Album Hearts of Oak
- #1Building Skyscrapers in the Basement
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- #2Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
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- #3I’m a Ghost
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- #4The High Party
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- #5Hearts of Oak
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- #6The Ballad of the Sin Eater
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- #7Dead Voices
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- #8The Anointed One
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- #9Bridges, Squares
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- #10
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- #112nd Ave, 11 AM
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- #12First to Finish, Last to Start
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- #13The Crane Takes Flight
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Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? by Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
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Ted Leo and The PharmacistsProduced by
Nicolas Vernhes & Ted LeoWrited by
Ted LeoAbout
This song is a heartfelt plea for the upbeat, political sound of the 2-Tone era, when racially diverse ska bands played a fusion of English punk and Jamaican rocksteady.
Very specifically this song lyrically namechecks several songs by and members of The Specials, who were the trailblazers of the s...
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Times like these when a neck looks for a knife
Wrist for a razor, a heart is longing for bullets
Tension is high under sea and over sky
Pressure drop, people are acting foolish
[Chorus]
Ooh, but it's easy to see
Ooh, we could dance and be free
Ooh, to that 2-tone beat
But it looks like it's gone, gone, gone
[Verse 2]
Gangsters and clowns with a stereotyped sound
It's coming like a ghost town, someone always knew it
Hatred and shame, a racialist game
Cycles of blame, someone sang this through it
[Chorus]
Ooh, but it's easy to see
Ooh, we would dance and be free
Ooh, to that 2-tone beat
But it looks like it's gone, gone, gone, gone
[Bridge]
I asked Jerry, he told Terry
Terry sang a song just for me
Lynvall gave a message to me
Rhoda screamed and she asked me
"Where have all the rude boys gone?"
I asked Jerry, he told Terry
Terry sang a song just for me
Lynvall gave a message to me
Rhoda screamed and she asked me
"Where have all the rude boys gone?"
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? Q&A
Who wrote Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?'s ?
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? was written by Ted Leo.
Who produced Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?'s ?
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? was produced by Nicolas Vernhes & Ted Leo.
When did Ted Leo and The Pharmacists release Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone??
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists released Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? on Tue Feb 11 2003.