Karaoké Real Men Joe Jackson

Take your mind back

I don't know when

Sometime when it always seemed to be just us and them

Girls that wore pink and boys that wore blue

Boys that always grew up better men than me and you

What's a man now

What's a man mean

Is he rough or is he rugged

Is he cultural and clean

Now it's all change

It's got to change more

'Cos we think it's getting better but nobody's really sure

And so it goes

Go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

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See the nice boys dancing in pairs

Golden earring, golden tan

Blow-wave in the hair

Sure they're all straight

Straight as a line

All the gays are macho

Can't you see the leather shine

You don't wanna sound dumb

Don't want to offend

So don't call me a faggot

Not unless you are a friend

Then if you're tall and handsome and strong you can wear the uniform and I could play along

And so it goes

Go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

Oh oh

Oh oh woah oh oh oh oh

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Oh oh woah oh oh oh oh

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Time to get scared

Time to change plan

Don't know how to treat a lady

Don't know how to be a man

Time to admit what you call defeat

'Cos there's women running past you now and you just drag your feet

Man makes a gun

Man goes to war

Man can kill and man can drink and man can take a whore

Kill all the blacks

Kill all the reds

And if there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left

And so it goes

Go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

Oh oh

Oh oh woah oh oh oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh woah oh oh oh oh

Hah ah ah ah ah ah

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