Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees

F# B D 2x F# F# F '69 was a very fine year I Was a teenage rebel who knew no fear D# C# D D# E Hanging around the flat at night Drunk on cider, out of sight F# F ? D# C# D D# E ? F# F Six months later, barnet's grown I got a mohair suit to call my own D# C# D D# E Buttoned-down shirt with a window-pane check Brand new strides with a dogtooth fleck F# F Growing up, I need much more The youth club kids were such a bore D# C# D D# E Me mate Neil says there's a place he knows Where his elder sister and her mates all go F# D# C# Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees F# D# C# Dancing to the rhythm of The Guns of Navarone F# D# C# Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station F# D# C# I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road F# F Crews from Balham and Golders Green And loads of places I've never been D# C# D D# E The stroke of ten, a fight breaks out Hear the bouncers scream and shout F# F Sling him out, he's wearing boots Cry the gangsters dressed in dinner suits D# C# D D# E They black his eyes, his nose gets bent Courtesy of the management F# D# C# Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees F# D# C# Dancing to the rhythm of The Guns of Navarone F# D# C# Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station F# D# C# I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road F# F F# C# D D# E F# F Eddie Holman slows things down You ask a girl to dance, but you get turned down D# C# D D# E Maybe it's just not your day What d'you want for five bob, anyway? F# F I was cool, drinking rum & black And then felt sick on the journey back D# C# D D# E I got soaked right through in the pouring rain But next week I'm going back again F# F Years have passed times have changed and all my life's been rearranged D# C# D D# E Now and then inside my mind ? I think of things that I've left behind F# F It brings a smile and then a tear always room for memories here D# C# D D# E laughs I had mates I met there's one place I won't forget F# D# C# Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees F# D# C# Dancing to the rhythm of The Guns of Navarone F# D# C# Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station F# D# C# I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road F# D# C# Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees F# D# C# Dancing to the rhythm of The Guns of Navarone F# D# C# Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station F# D# C# I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road