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 *******s, 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 colored 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