There was one of the gang, who had Scalextric and because of that he thought he was better than you
Every day after school,
You'd go around there to play it,
Hoping to compete for some kind of championship,
But it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again
A dodgy transformer, again and again
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again
A dodgy transformer that cost 3 pounds 10

So he sent his doting mother
Up the stairs with the stepladder,
To get the Subutteo out of the loft
It had all the accessories required for that big-match atmosphere
The crowd and the dugout, and the floodlights, too
And you'd always get palmed off
With a headless center-forward,
And a goal-keeper with no arms,
And a face like his
And he'd managed to get hold of
A Dukla-Prague Away Kit,
His uncle owned a sports shop and he'd kept it to one side
And after only five minutes
You'd be down to ten men,
And then he said sent off your right back for taking the base from under his left-winger
Come to half-time, you were losing four-nil
Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty
So you smash up the floodlights
And the game was abandoned,
And the dog would bark
And you'd be banned from his house
And your travelling army
Of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you
And thrown in the bin

And now he's working
In a job with a future
He hands me my Giro (as in fortnightly govt unemployment handout) every two weeks
And me I'm on the lookout
For a proper transformer

Uh?!