(Capo on 5th to play along)

C5                   G5
Down to the agent's shop I'd go
    C5           G5            D5
I'd shoulder my bag down the Irvine Road
         C5              G5      D5
Past the council houses row on row
    G5        C5     D5
When I was a paper boy
         C5                    G5
With the Daily Record and the People's Friend
       C5           G5      D5
I'd go down to the sunny side again
C5                          G5       D5
Under the bridge where the railway bends
    C5        D5     G5
When 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