This song is all about the lifestyle in the West End of London, a fashionable area of London also popular with tourists.
[Verse 1]
Stepping out to Angelucci's
For my coffee beans
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me
Crossing from the Barocco Bar
I get a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue
Excuse me for talking I wanna marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don't you seem so proud
You're just another angel
In the crowd and I'm...
[Chorus]
Walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
[Verse 2]
Now my conductress on the number nineteen
She was a honey (she was a honey)
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with the money
Greasy, greasy, greasy hair, easy smile
She made me feel nineteen for a while
I went down to Chinatown
In the backroom it's a man's world
All the money go down
Duck inside the doorway, duck to eat
Just ain't no way
You and me, we can't beat
[Chorus]
Walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend
[Verse 3]
Darling a gogo dancing girl
Yes I saw her
The DJ he say here's Mandy for ya
I feel alright, saying now, do that stuff
She's dancing high I move on by
The close ups can get rough
[Chorus]
When you're walking in the wild west end
Walking, walking, walking in the wild west end
Walking, walking with your wild best friend
Walking, walking in the..
Wild West End was written by Mark Knopfler.
Wild West End was produced by Muff Winwood.
Dire Straits released Wild West End on Sat Oct 07 1978.