Mighty Mighty Bosstones Riot On Broad Street lyrics

My father once told this to me<br />
Boston's gritty history<br />
Another ruthless battle<br />
In a useless holy war<br />
<br />
Handed down discrepancies<br />
And tensions that'll never ease<br />
One early afternoon on Broad street<br />
It blew up down there for sure<br />
<br />
Broad street's just not broad enough<br />
And you just don't love God enough<br />
And if that isn't odd enough<br />
We've taken too much crap<br />
<br />
You've pushed us round the sod enough<br />
We've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough<br />
Poked, provoked and prod enough<br />
Something's gonna snap<br />
<br />
The Boston fire fighting volunteers<br />
On their way to fight a fire somewhere<br />
Met with a funeral procession<br />
Proceeding way too slow<br />
<br />
A brownstone burns out of control<br />
We need to lay to rest this soul<br />
Loggerheads on Broad street<br />
Eye to eye and toe to toe<br />
<br />
Broad street's just not broad enough<br />
And you just don't love God enough<br />
And if that isn't odd enough<br />
We've taken too much crap<br />
<br />
You've pushed us round the sod enough<br />
We've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough<br />
Poked, provoked and prod enough<br />
Something's gonna snap<br />
<br />
Riot down on Broad street<br />
Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket<br />
Bottle, axe or cobblestone<br />
Riot down on Broad street<br />
<br />

And if I'm going down<br />
Hell, I'm not going down alone<br />
I won't go down alone<br />
<br />
And when the fight was over<br />
They retired to the Clover<br />
Silver Dollar, Thirsty Scollar<br />
Whatever pubs they had back then<br />
<br />
The brownstone was in ashes<br />
Broken Bones and bloody gashes<br />
And a casket sat on Broad street<br />
Till the sun came up again<br />
<br />
Broad street's just not broad enough<br />
And you just don't love God enough<br />
And if that isn't odd enough<br />
We've taken too much crap<br />
<br />
You've pushed us round the sod enough<br />
We've scrapped and rapped and jawed enough<br />
Poked, provoked and prod enough<br />
Something's gonna snap<br />
<br />
Riot down on Broad street<br />
Hand me a brick, a stick, a picket<br />
Bottle, axe or cobblestone<br />
Riot down on Broad street<br />
<br />
And if I'm going down<br />
Hell, I'm not going down alone<br />
And if I'm going down<br />
Hell, I'm not going down alone<br />
<br />
And if I'm going down<br />
Hell, I'm not going down alone<br />
<br />
There's a riot down on Broad street<br />
There's a riot down on Broad street<br />
There's a riot down on Broad street<br />
There's a riot down on Broad street