Well I'm hanging around with the girl about town
She can't stand up from falling down
We're in the gutter and looking up
And wishing on the stars
Says "Twenty years ago today
I was a Welsh girl in the USA
I met a boy on Ligger street
Who stole my heart"

"Yeah, we danced all night to the sounds of The Ramones
He had a punkrock guitar that I played when we got home
He knew a drummer with a pink haircut and his sister joined the band
Six months later we signed a deal and we headed for Japan"

"Now I live on the fourteenth floor of tower block estate
And when I'm drunk I see the lights shine over Swansea Bay
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
Back in the New York groove."

Well I'm hanging around with the girl about town
She can't stand up from falling down
She's got plastic badge stuck across her heart
Says "gimme teenage kicks"
Says "Twenty years ago today
I was a Welsh girl in the USA
I fell in love with a boy from Queens
And quit the band."

"Spent all my money on a cocktail dress with matching silver shoes
And a purple souped-up travellator David Bowie used to use
We bought some drugs and we hit the road on the hottest summer day
But he left me for a singer in a disco band in a nightclub in L.A."

"Now I live on the fourteenth floor of tower block estate
And when I'm drunk I see the lights shine over Swansea Bay
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
I wish I was back...
Back in the New York groove."

"I'm the girl about town that you heard of
Girl about town."