Tony Wilson Said - Badly Drawn Boy

Shout out to the city

Like Tony Wilson said

Wrong number Chicago and New York

Dial Manchester instead

We’re driving through Rusholme

Moss side and Whalley Range

Get caught on the wrong side of the law in this town

They’ll treat you in Strangeways

He symbolised and crystallised freedom

A King with no crown

He left more than a million footprints

All over this town

What of Factory Records?

With their contracts signed in blood

And halfway to London he turned his car round

Somehow just knew he would

Outside The Apollo

The jewel of Ardwick Green

Stone’s throw from the Boardwalk

The Hacienda, on the corner of Whitworth Street

He symbolised and crystallised freedom

A King with no crown

He left more than a million footprints

All over this town

Some might call it a treason

A King with no crown

And he turned to face

His troubles down

To fight for our freedom

Turned his Jaguar round

And the wheels kept turning

The wheels kept turning

To the Cottonopolis

To the Cottonopolis

Shout out to the city

Like Tony Wilson said

Wrong number Chicago and New York

Dial Manchester instead

Shout out Factory Records

With their contracts signed in blood

It’s true that not only do the good die young

But only the young die good

He symbolised and crystallised freedom

A King with no crown

He left more than a million footprints

All over this town

He symbolised and crystallised freedom

A King with no crown

He left more than a million footprints

All over this town