Dilly Boys

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Dilly Boys is a Libertines track, credited to Peter Doherty and Carl Barat. It was officially released in August 2004, on The Libertines' fifth single, Can't Stand Me Now. The lyrics of the song allude to homosexuality; Dilly is short for Piccadilly Circus and Dilly Boys were the effeminate men who frequented the streets around Piccadilly in the 1920s and 1930s.

Appearing on

#1 (Up the) Albion Radio (Monitor Mixes)	Peter Doherty	Fan mixtape	2014-02-01
L'Album De La Semaine	Peter Doherty	Session	2009-03-02
Jazz After Dark	Peter Doherty	Session	2006
Can't Stand Me Now	The Libertines	Single	2004-08-09
Whitechapel Demonstrations	Peter Doherty	Session	2004-04-06
Monitor Mixes	The Libertines	Session	2003

Concerts

The Garage, Uplands, Swansea	Peter Doherty		2013-06-18
Woodstower Festival	Peter Doherty	Grand Parc De Miribel Jonage, Lyon, France	2010-09-03
Live in Copenhagen	Peter Doherty	Copenhagen, Denmark	2009-04-09
La Maroquinerie	Peter Doherty	Paris, France	2008-11-28
The Mass	Peter Doherty	Brixton, London	2008-06-17
The Torriano	Peter Doherty	Kentish Town, London	2008-03-20
Rhythm Factory	Peter Doherty	London (Whitechapel), UK	2008-02-26
Rhythm Factory	Peter Doherty	Whitechapel, London	2007-12-16
An Evening With Pete Doherty Pt.2	The Libertines	Hackney Empire, London	2007-04-12
Reading Festival (1)	Babyshambles	Reading Festival, Radio1 NME stage	2005-08-27
12 Bar Club	The Libertines	London, UK	2001-02-26

Lyrics

My love wrote the words to the saddest songs
The songs that say that life is too long
And the moon is always blue, just because

I wish you'd sing me those other songs again
The songs that say life's worth the worry and the pain
And the sun smiles through the rain, just because

Just because she's the sweetest girl
The sweetest girl in the world

She's my moral guide, oh she does nothing at all
Smokes all of my bone and stares at the wall
Maybe she'll pace the room, howl at the moon
But still she's the sweetest girl
And he's the sweetest girl in the world

Me I'm just a dilly boy
Fresh fly pressed Piccadilly boy
Hands on hips, pout on lips
Meat rag tag like dilly boy
She's the sweetest girl, the sweetest girl in the world

In Chinatown they all la, la, la, la

What about you?

Me I'm just a Dilly Boy
Fresh fly pressed Piccadilly boy
Hands on hips, pout on lips
Meat rag tag like dilly boy
She's the sweetest girl
No he's the sweetest girl in the world

Well she's the sweetest girl in the world.
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