Oh, you're down on your uppers
I said you need new boots
Will you listen to your mother?
Oh, I said you're down on your uppers (ayy)

♪
I remember when I was a boy
I didn't need no fancy toys
I just wanted to explore
Go out into the great outdoors
Over ditches and on the trees
Through a million fields of green
'Til the evenin' shadows fall
When I would hear my mama call
Oh, you're down on your uppers
I said you need new boots
Have you got no others, that you can fit into?
Ahh Derekeen, they're the worst I've seen
They're needin' more than a bit of a clean
Will you listen to your mother?
Oh, I said you're down on your uppers (hey)
♪
Now as I walk these city streets
I'm moving to a country beat
Grey hills and flashing lights
They surround the day and night
But I know when I'm feeling alone
Where my heart it longs to go
To where the evenin' shadows fall
And I can hear my mama call
Oh, you're down on your uppers
I said you need new boots
Have you got no others, that you can fit into?
Ahh, Derekeen, they're the worst I've seen
They're needin' more than a bit of a clean
Will you listen to your mother?
Oh, said you're down on your uppers (hey)
Oh, you're down on your uppers
I said you need new boots
Have you got no others, that you can fit into?
Ahh, Derekeen, they're the worst I've seen
They're needin' more than a bit of a clean
Will you listen to your mother?
Oh, you're down on your uppers
Yeah, I said you're down on your uppers
Oh, you need new boots
Have you got no others, that you can fit into?
Ahh, Derekeen, they're the worst I've seen
They're needin' more than a bit of a clean
Will you listen to your mother?
Oh, I said you're down on your uppers (hey)
♪
Ah, come in for your supper
'Cause you're down on your uppers (hey)