Oh me and my best friends
Are going to start a skiffle band
We've learnt to play guitars
And we've got teachest bass
Oh we're going to rule the world
With our catchy three chord songs
And all of our girlfriends
Will be singing along
Slicking back our hair with wax
In the studio we're cutting tracks
We're taking all our trousers
To the tailor on the corner
So we can undermine our parents
With that hot new stovepipe look
Oh we're waiting on a call
From the major record label
So we can cut a single
Watch it climb up through the charts
Pretty girls and car chases
Meeting all these famous faces
And people ask us who we are and we say
We're Karl Marx and the Reds
Oh me and my best friends
Skip school to make rehearsal
We practice every day
In the basement of our mum's house
Last night we played the school dance
And caused a great commotion
The only way to stop us
Was to turn off that P.A. system
And if they drop that bomb tonight
Well I know that it will... it's gonna be alright
And people ask us who we are and we say
We're Karl Marx and the Reds
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