[Verse]
Ah, the Bogside man is the man for me,
He's cutting a recruiting in the RUC
He was the Bogside man.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
From Belfast town now the Specials came,
They looked at the sky, it started to rain,
With gratings.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
The Specials came in brown and black,
Ma granny ran out and they all run back,
She married the Bogside man.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
We're all browned off with the midnight raids,
Every man to the barricades,
We are the Bogside men.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
The Bogside now has been set free
The rats have left with the RUC
We are the Bogside men.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
For a house they'll tell you all to save,
You'll get a tent or a bloody cave,
In the Bogside.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.

[Verse]
I haven't the change of a shirt or coat,
There'll be a change when I get me vote,
I am the Bogside man.

[Chorus]
Steady on your aim with the petrol bomb,
Don't throw it son, till the peelers come.
I am the Bogside man.