The Good Old Days is track #11 on The Libertines debut album, Up the Bracket, and is credited to Doherty and Barat.
The track is a fan favourite, often being requested and played at gigs by The Libertines and, more rarely, Doherty solo. Performed live, "Good Old Days" includes a longer verse section with additional lyrics (transcribed in the Up the Bracket album inlay but not heard in the studio recording).
The Libertines recorded a copy of The Good Old Days during the Babyshambles Sessions in May 2003, in which Doherty whispered "get a tattoo", as an answer to Barat's line "a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow". Apparently this was the reason that both Doherty and Barat had "libertine" tattooed on their arms (which is seen on the cover art for their second album, The Libertines). As well as these two versions, the track has also been recorded by Barat solo (for his Oui FM, and Mexican sessions).
| Live at O2 Academy Glasgow (1) |  The Libertines | Album | 2016-02-19 |
| Acoustic session, Mexico |  Carl Barat | Session | 2005-04 |
| Oui FM session | Carl Barat | Session | 2004-11-24 |
| AOL session | The Libertines | Session | 2004-08-28 |
| Live For Spanish TV | The Libertines | Session | 2003-07-15 |
| Babyshambles Sessions | The Libertines | Session | 2003-05 |
| Up the Bracket | The Libertines | Album | 2002-10-14 |
| Horrorshow in London Town | The Libertines | Session | Unknown |
 Festival SOS 4.8 | The Libertines | Murcia | 2016-05-07 |
 AB brussels 2016 | The Libertines | Ancienne Belgique, Brussels | 2016-05-03 |
 Live @ Olympia | The Libertines | Music Hall, Paris | 2016-03-09 |
| O2 London (1) | The Libertines | 2016-01-30 | |
 Reading Festival 2015 | The Libertines | Reading | 2015-08-30 |
| Rock en Seine 2015 | The Libertines | Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud | 2015-08-29 |
 3Arena Dublin | The Libertines | 3Arena Dublin | 2015-07-09 |
 Ahmad Tea Music Festival | The Libertines | 2015-06-27 | |
| Glastonbury 2015 | The Libertines | Glastonbury | 2015-06-26 |
| Benicàssim Festival | The Libertines | Benicàssim, Spain | 2014-07-19 |
| Glasgow Barrowland | The Libertines | Glasgow, Scotland | 2014-06-29 |
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If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit
In her children's children's children
It lives on
If you've lost your faith in love and music
Oh the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you then I too may lose it
And that would be wrong
I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
Back into my bad old ways
And it chars my heart to always hear you calling
Calling for the good old days
Because there were no good old days
These are the good old days
It's not about, tenements and needles
And all the evils in their eyes
And the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and school yard games
And a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
The arcadian dream has all fallen through
But the Albion sails on course
So lets man the decks and hoist the rigging
Because the pig mans found the source
And theres twelve rude boys on the oars
In the good old...days
NameThe Good Old Days
BandThe Libertines
CreditsCarl Barat
Peter Doherty
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