Banned In Boston:Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs.
#117 on BB Hot 100 on MGM Records in 1967.
INTRO:
Owww! Let me get up on this doctored
up thunder-ticket.
#1.
I m rollin down the turnpike for a night on
Boston s town, yeah.
I didn t please the Boys In Blue with the way
I carried on.
I m goin to San Francisco..my reputation s
been made, yeah.
When Boston censored me..I knew I d made the grade.
CHORUS:
Cause I ve been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well,
I m weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can t
ya see? (banned in Boston) yeah, yeah.
#2.
I ve had twenty different landlords in twenty different
weeks, yeah.
I m proud to say that my best friends are Boston s biggest
freaks.
All the girls keep comin around..they hear I m so far out,
yeah..hangin round and whisperin .. Sammy, what s this
all about?
CHORUS:
Well, I ve been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well,
I m weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can t
ya see? (banned in Boston)..
C mon, big baby, get on with me..grrrrrrr..oh-oh.
(INTERLUDE:)
#3.
Your father, your mother, your brother, don t like me..
your sister thinks I m kinda cool, yeah.
The only way I ll play your game is by breakin one or
two of your rules.
I m a literary genus, as you can plainly see, yeah.
I wrote you simple lyrics sayin .. Ain t you proud of me?!
CHORUS:
Well, I ve been banned in Boston, baby..yeah, you
know how bad I can be..(banned in Boston) yeah, well,
I m weird and feared, baby..wild and woolly..can t
ya see? (banned in Boston)..
OUTRO:
C mon baby..get on..don t forget your brain-bucket, now..
(banned in Boston..banned in Boston..banned in Boston)..
(banned in Boston)ready to go? rrrrrr, owww!..
(banned in Boston)..San Francisco here we come..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
