Wild West End

Album: Dire Straits (1978)
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  • 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...

    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking with your wild best friend

    Now my conductress on the number 19
    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 back room, 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

    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking with your wild best friend

    Darling a go-go dancing girl
    Yes I saw her
    The DJ he says 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

    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking in the wild west end
    Walking with your wild best friend Writer/s: Mark Knopfler
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Andrés from Montevideo, UruguayAnother great song and great lyrics by Dire Straits.
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