Ever since i was a child,
i loved to wander wild
through the bright city lights,
and find myself a life i could call my own.
it was always my ambition
to see piccadilly,
ramble and roam around soho
and pimlico and savile row,
and walk down the abbey road.
so i saved all my money
and packed up my clothes,
and i said good-bye to my friends
and my folks back home.
and i left for a life of my own.
i left for a life on the road.
I'm a real hungry tyke,
and i know what i like.
and i know where i'm goin':
to those bright city lights.
oh yeah, oh yeah,
this time i'm gonna get there.
i'm bound for a life on the road.
give me life on the road.
i said life on the road.
When i arrived in euston,
i was little more than a child.
and i didn't know then
that the dives and the dens
would be so vulgar and wicked and wild.
mama always told me
the city ladies were bawdy and bold.
and so i searched night and day
to catch a kissable lady,
but all that i caught was a cold,
'cause those stuck-up city ladies
didn't notice me walk by.
now i've got holes in my shoes
'cause i've been walkin' the streets all night.
and i'm livin' the life that i chose.
livin' my life on the road.
i said life on the road.
i want life on the road.
life on the road.
I was standing with the punks in praed street,
when a muscle man came my way.
he said,