I’m pretty sure this one wasn’t used and I’m pretty sure that it’s lack of performance makes sense.
It reads better than it sings…
…and it doesn’t read all that well.
In later years, ideas of this kind, which flatter to deceive when they first come to mind, would sit on the jotter for years or for ever with just a few key words waiting for inspiration.
YOUNG ROGUES
(To the Tune of “Young Girl”)
INTRO – PC PLOD
Young rogues, offend all the time, delinquency is Britain’s top crime;
Tory old fogues will punish young rogues.
VERSE 1 – A TORY MINISTER (e.g. THE PM)
With all the charms of Atilla,
We’ve bred the outcasts of our youth;
We Tories do believe a short sharp shock behind the lock,
Will make these youngsters less uncouth.
CHORUS 1 – STILL THE TORY
Oh, oh, oh, young rogues, have got out of line,
We’ll build secure homes for them to serve time;
Read the Sun rogues, we should hang young rogues.
VERSE 2 – AN ANGLICAN MINISTER
Beneath their striped shirts and face masks,
They just are babies in disguise;
And as we know Tory policy is villainy,
The clergy wants to sympathise.
CHORUS 2 – STILL THE SOFT ANGLICAN
Oh, oh, oh, young rogues, are misunderstood,
And God believes all villains are good,
So have fun rogues, we forgive young rogues.
VERSE 3 – BACK TO THE PLOD
We take kids home to their mamas,
Who don’t care where their children are;
We want the law to make parents pay for kids affray,
Cos their misdeeds are down to pa.
CHORUS 3 – ALL THREE
Oh, oh, oh, young rogues, and juvenile crime,
We always claim “getting worse at this time”,
We can’t unfurl, the cause of young rogues.
Young rogues must follow our lead,
We teach them conflict, we teach them greed,
Do our dung vogues inspire the young rogues?
Below is a vid of Gary Puckett and the Union gap singing Young Girl: