East Side Beat - The Toasters

In a beat up Ford Cortina on Saturday night

Second Step and Urban Blight

Hear come the Boilers to check out the scene

But that’s never too true if you know what I mean

The reception is cool, so turn up the heat

Come on boys do some East Side Beat

Pick up the piece and make your play

I wonder what the old man will say

Caught in the act with a gun in your hand

And a fat old judge doesn’t understand

Burning and looting down on the street

Come on boys do some East Side Beat

Oi!

Oi!

Oi!

Oh Oi!

Oi!

Out in the jungle on a Saturday night

Trip over a junky and there’s two in a fight

Go over to the fellas just chewin the fat

Shark skin apes in pork pie hats

Big ugly skinhead across the street

Come on boys do the East Side Beat

In to this sticka for a rack of pool

There’s a girl at the bar that’s beginning to drool

One more chaser I’ll move right in

She gets much fresher as I feel up my skin

Keep the chasers cold and the whisky neat

Come on boys do the East Side Beat

Oi!

Oi!

Oi!

Oh Oi!

Oi!

So it’s up in the morning try to go straight

Out on the turf its a theatre of hate

In a land you can’t even call your own

And the big fat coppers won’t leave you alone

Push you around do the law with their feet

Come on boys do the East Side Beat

So it’s off to jail put and up into the dock

Send you off for a short sharp shock

Tell racist jokes as they put you away

Never even listen what the hell you say

Burning police cars down on the street

Come on boys do the East Side Beat

East Side Beat

East Side Beat

East Side Beat

East Side Beat

Burning police cars down on the street

Come on boys do some East Side Beat!