Biography:
Oi! band active from 1979 to 1984. their biggest UK hit "the greatest cockney rip-off" was a parody of Sham 69's "hersham boys". As Julie Burchill noted, "It must have been a bloody strong wind that blew the sound of Bow Bells to Surrey." Other songs were less commercial as they tended to be about street fighting and football hooliganism - except for the band's version of the famous West Ham United anthem, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". This violence was often mirrored at their gigs which the band sorted out themselves
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Join The Rejects by The Cockney Rejects
Intro: acoustic D A G A x2
D A G A x2 with lead
Here comes the new punk
D A G (10th fret) A x4
All in: A B D B x2
A B D B
Do you remember 1977
Daddy of the gang said that you'll go to heaven
every word a lie and none the truth
so here's a message for todays youth
CHORUS:
D A G A
Join the Rejects and get yourself killed x4
I wanna go back to where it all began
I wanna do a gig in my back garden
wanna have a laugh before the press get in
if you give'em half a chance they'll kill the fucking thing
CHORUS:
Intro: acoustic D A G A x2
D A G A x2 with lead
Here comes the new punk
D A G (10th fret) A x4
All in: A B D B x2
A B D B
Do you remember 1977
Daddy of the gang said that you'll go to heaven
every word a lie and none the truth
so here's a message for todays youth
CHORUS:
D A G A
Join the Rejects and get yourself killed x4
I wanna go back to where it all began
I wanna do a gig in my back garden
wanna have a laugh before the press get in
if you give'em half a chance they'll kill the fucking thing
CHORUS:
Coco Jones
Coco Lee
Coco O
Coco Rapido
Coco Wash