Runaway Boys

Album: Built For Speed (1980)
Charted: 9
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  • Get kicked out for coming home at dawn,
    Mom and Dad cursed the day you were born,
    Throw your clothes into a duffle bag
    shoutin' as ya slam the door home is a drag

    Who can I turn to and where can I stay ?
    I heard a place is open all night and all day
    There's a place you can go where the cops don't know
    You can act real wild they don't treat you like a child

    Runaway boys

    Your hair's all greasy and you feel like a slob,
    You're only fifteen and you can't get a job,
    Go into the luncheonette and shoot a few games
    Losing all your quarters, man it's always the same

    Steal a couple of bucks to buy a new toy,
    Slip into the alley with the

    Runaway boys

    Runnin' faster, faster all the time
    You're under age and God knows, that's a crime !

    Runaway boys Writer/s: BRIAN SETZER, JAMES MC DONNELL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 12th 1982 "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats peaked at #9 (for 4 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on September 12th and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100...
    "Runaway Boys" did not chart in the U.S.A., but their next three releases in America all made the Billboard's Top 10; "Rock This Town" (#9),
    "Stray Cat Strut" (#3), and "(She's) Sexy + 17" (#5)...
    And their 1982 album 'Built For Speed' peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.
  • Angus from Ottawa, OnYeah, well, Stray Cat Strut was nothing like Rockabilly. Oh well.
  • Ben from Pensacola, FlWow ! Only 1 song listed by the Cats ? This is terrible they had some great songs. 'Rock This Town', 'Stray Cat Strut'.
  • Bruce from Long Branch, NjYou have to be *bleeping* kidding me. Stray Cat Strut is much better.
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