Skinny Lister - Seventeen Summers lyrics

I was only a boy when the village I fled To some southern flung place all about I had read I said give me a year and I'll return again Then a year turned to two and then two turned to ten Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city With many a lover that came and then went All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly On these rotten streets my best days have been spent I was only a boy when to London I came Chancing my luck on some fortune or fame Well still they allied me, but still I remain That dirty old river, it runs through my veins Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city With many a lover that came and then went All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly On these rotten streets my best days have been spent INSTRUMENTAL Oh and seventeen summers I gave to this city With many a lover that came and then went All the friends and the stories, I think of them dearly On these rotten streets my best days have been spent On these rotten streets my best days have been spent