Paper Boy

[C]Down to the agent's [G]shop I'd go
I'd [C]shoulder my [G]bag down the [D]Irvine Road
Past the [C]council houses [G]row on [D]row
When[G] I was a [C]paper [D]boy
With the [C]Daily Record and the [G]People's Friend
I'd go [C]down to the [G]sunny s[D]ide again
[C]Under the bridge where the [G]railway [D]bends
When[C] I was a [D]paper [G]boy

And my feet flew in the morning light
Racing the dawn as the sky grew bright
And everything in the world was right
When I was a paper boy
I'd walk the morning and the empty streets
Would ring to the sound of my own two feet
And I'd walk in step to my own heartbeat
When I was a paper boy

As the rain rolled down the back of my neck
I'd deliver the news of death and sex
Rhodesia, Speck and Malcolm X
When I was a paper boy
There's a crow in a treetop way up high
Hung as a warning left to die
And a moaning wind in the morning sky
When I was a paper boy