(Capo on 5th to play along) C (x32010@1) GDown (320003@1)to the agent's shop I'd go C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) DI'd (xx0232@1)shoulder my bag down the Irvine Road C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) DPast (xx0232@1)the council houses row on row G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) DWhen (xx0232@1)I was a paper boy C (x32010@1) GWith (320003@1)the Daily Record and the People's Friend C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) DI'd (xx0232@1)go down to the sunny side again C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) DUnder (xx0232@1)the bridge where the railway bends C (x32010@1) D (xx0232@1) GWhen (320003@1)I was a paper 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