The Only Boy Racer Left On The Island

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[Verse 1]

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When I was young I said this town will live in my dust
   C                                                   G
My father said “My boy that life's not for the likes of us”
       C                                                        Em
But the boys in the streets, in the fast cars, they kept turning heads
      C                                                   G
And I said “Boy, they’re real men, one day I’ll be one of them”


[Chorus]

Em7          C                  G     C
The only boy racer left on the island
Em           C                  G     C
The only boy racer left on the island


[Verse 2]

C                                           G
They say you could hear the engine from the mainland
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When I was 10, saw the high street hero speeding round the bend
C                                                                    Em   C
But those engines got sold when the speed freaks settled down in the south
C                                                     G
I guess masculinity’s a pursuit left to the embers of youth


[Chorus]

    Em7      C                 G     C
The only boy racer left on the island
    Em       C                 G     C
The only boy racer left on the island
    Em7          D
The only joys of holding on
    Am                   C
The vines and leaves all gathering on
    G        D                 C
The only boy racer left on the island


[Outro]

                   G   Em  G  D   Am C  Bm
No man gets left behind
Bm                 Em   D   C   G
No man gets left behind