Our Audio Tracks Music: Mick Fisher Lyrics: David Clarke

Mr Very Guilty .mp3

Four Stitches To The Inch.mp3

Mr Very Guilty Minus One.mp3

Four Stitches To The Inch Minus One.mp3

Borstal Boy  Album Track 1
Mr Very Guilty

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


1    Taken  to the court house, by  the powers that be.
In answer to the charges, had to make a plea.

    Mr  very guilty took them by surprise.
Having no defense  set forth my demise.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


   Made up my portfolio, listing all my crimes,
and knew with my past history, I was doing time.

    Told the court my teenage past,  and recognized the bench,
there,  was my silver girl a love that made no sense

Tagalog  or

Very Very Guilty there is no other plea
Very Very Guilty looks like three years to me



3    She was now a magistrate ,  how  would all this end.
Once she  was my  sweetheart,   loved her  to the end.

    The Dear John that she give me , had sent me  round the bend,  
off into the night I drove, my  life was at an end.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 year to me.


4    Far more to my story, and was intent to tell.
Stood before the court that day, told of my trip to hell.

    Told them all in detail,  about my life of crime
since leaving Dover Borstal,  1969.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 year to me
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 Riff

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years to me


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Borstal Boy Album Track 2
Four Stitches To The Inch


Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


1 Dover Borstal Graduate, was my rise to fame.
entered this new chapter in life’s little game.

Her Majesties Detention, was no remedy.
Not Wormwood Scrubs, or Dover was any help to me.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


2 Four stitches to the inch we learned, work-in’ on the line.
Slop out was a dirty task, and was a wast of time.

Learned to keep our cool inside, always out of line.
Flash Clarke was what they called me , number five one nine.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


3 Along with crafty dealings, loved my life of crime.
With careful callous planning of undetected crime.

Gleeful aspirations rode the coaster high,
Got no satisfaction with my sex, drugs or crime.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


4 Mocked at all religion, thought that i knew best.
Stole those things i needed, thinking I was blessed.

Sudden change took place one night, took me by surprise.
An acid trip was on the cards I didn’t realize.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.


5 A striking revelation and, an epiphany.
Agonizing horrors induced by LSD.

Cried out to the lord above, to save me from the pit.
That single tab of acid, an agonizing trip.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me
.

6 Light was what I needed, directions how to love.
then like a roar from Aslan, his voice lifts me above.

Rescued from my pit that night, my heart soars like a dove.
turns my back on crime that night, to follow this new love.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.

Very, very guilty there is no other plea.
Yes very, very guilty looks like 3 years for me.