England Rocks, Ian Hunter, Originally a non-LP single, on the CD reissue of Overnight Angels

Ian has said he had placed himself in a stupid position by 1977 and had fired his American musicians, crew, and manager. But on a British tour CBS Records suddenly demanded a single product. Hunter had written Cleveland Rocks about a year before and in a panic he changed "Cleveland" to "England." The song is along the same lines as Roll Away the Stone and All They Way To Memphis. The record stiffed until Mick Ronson got his hands on it subsequently. 

England Rocks is an everyman type of song glorifying the impulse to rock and subsequently it was applied appropriately to fans in the mid level to small cities in the United States who embraced rock acts that came to their town. It is more appropriate to the States with a reference to "American dreams" and James Dean who is best remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. 

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remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement

England Rocks

(Ian Hunter)

(One, Two, Three, Four)

Energy calling me, back where I came from
It's such a crude attitude, it's back where it belongs
All the little chicks with the crimson lips go
England Rocks, England Rocks
She's living in sin with a safety pin
England Rocks, England Rocks (etc)

Momma knows but she don't care, she got her worries too
Seven kids and a phoney affair, and the rent is due
All the little kids growing up on the skids
Going England Rocks, England Rocks
American dreams, moody James Deans
Going England Rocks, England Rocks

England Rocks, England Rocks

I got some badges from World War II
I wear 'em just like my Granddad do
He was a villain and I am too
Oh England Rocks, England Rocks

So grab a place, find a space
And yell and scream for more

England Rocks, England Rocks
England Rocks, England Rocks
(to fade)

England Rocks

2:53

Originally a non-LP single; it is on the CD reissue of Overnight Angels and on the compilations Gold, Once Bitten - the CBS Collection, Shades of Ian Hunter: The Ballad of Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople, The Singles Collection 1975-83 and The Very Best of Ian Hunter.