David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging Lyrics






Heaven loves ya
The clouds part for ya
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy

Clothes always fit ya
Life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy

When you're a boy
You can wear a uniform
When you're a boy
Other boys check you out
You get a girl
These are your favourite things
When you're a boy

Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out

Uncage the colours
Unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy

They'll never clone ya
You're always first on the line
When you're a boy

When you're a boy
You can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy
Learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy

Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out





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  1. G.... B....

    Damn : Kurfurtendamm Drag is a bitch .
    Roo Paul : check your toe nails .

  2. A.... S....

    2:04 Oh, lord, HAHAHAHAHA! I crack up every time I see it. Bowie was such a good actor. He got that type _down._ My mom's a boomer from the working class and was a teen in the early 60s. She had a few friends from that day who kept that general look for way, WAY too long into the 70s, and were these beehive hairdo-having, gum-cracking, "I don't take no shit" broads like this one.

  3. x.... ....

    Seems like yesterday ...

  4. R.... S....

    Best guitar solo, period!!! 2:00

  5. S.... G....

    Three things that really stood out in this video: his dance moves, his jawline, and of course his voice

  6. N.... C....

    When people ask if there is life out there in the Universe, just remember that God gave us David Bowie...

  7. J.... A....

    This is art. It doesn't get any better.

  8. B.... M....

    Greatest dancer in all the world

  9. M.... B....

    The last drag always reminded me a tad of the late great Bette Davis.

  10. B.... A....

    David Bowie snatching his own wig is my religion.

  11. S.... ....

    Magnífic

  12. P.... M....

    Love him!!! 💓💓💓💓

  13. R.... P....

    He is so Beautiful

  14. S.... S....

    'New Instant Gender Fluid' ..... Just take any regular gender ....And add Bowie

  15. t.... ....

    Bowie didn't begin the British tradition of misogyny but he sure as hell perfected it!

  16. �.... ....

    1:32 よかば〜い 本マグロ〜

  17. M.... T....

    Life's a party, you're a boy

  18. P.... D....

    It's like Bowie, backed up by ELO, covering a Lou Reed song.

  19. R.... B....

    I used to tape all the Rockworld shows and they showed three videos from Lodger. We played this over and over.
    This song gave me my marching orders. Come on now, swivelers!

  20. R.... S....

    Adrian Belew kick-@SS guitar solo!! ❤️❤️❤️

  21. K.... C....

    As i child i was convinced they were actually women

  22. R.... P....

    The smearing of the lipstick is Bowie saying FUCK YOU to a world that suppresses high art of this magnitude displayed on this stage. David Bowie was DECADES ahead of his time!

  23. N.... ....

    Te amo Bowie por siempreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! <3

  24. T.... K....

    No one could rock a suit like him.

  25. I.... F....

    Great bass.

  26. P.... S....

    He's not wiping the lipstick off his face, he's wiping the blow off his nose!

    I just realised that my version of "Best of Bowie" (2 CD album) was missing a song. So this is the first time I've heard this song. And its bloody brilliant. And the video with the dancing and the drag is just wonderful! One of the biggest regrets of my life was when Bowie last toured Australia (2003?) I thought "yeah he has a couple of songs I know but who wants to see an old poof?" Jeez, I used to be completely fucked in the head. Completely!

  27. M.... ....

    ultimate shit. tasteless

  28. T.... K....

    Stunning woof

  29. A.... M....

    Interesting song. But, yikes! David in drag? Maybe "this" one should have been titled "Scary Monsters" *with all due respect. AMJ

  30. g.... ....

    He can't dance at all, hard as you can tell they are trying to make it look like he can.

  31. P.... ....

    The beat is very Heroes.

  32. C.... S....

    Why cosplay as one Golden Girl when you can cosplay as all of them at once.

  33. J.... P....

    The hair flick when he comes out as Ginger is EVERYTHING, just like Blackie fixing her dress .... Gorgeous and so ahead of its time...I'm sure Bowie didn't die he just went back to the future where he came from .... 👽

  34. J.... P....

    Guessing the old lady is him as his mum...this used to scare me as a kid...there's something horrific about it that I love

  35. J.... P....

    So daring, so sexy, so creative, so weird, so lovingly Bowie ♥️♥️♥️

  36. D.... T....

    Bowie is prettier than most of us girls out there 💙😂😂😂

  37. S.... S....

    Thankfully, after this, he got back together with Hunt & Tony Sales to form Tin Machine, where he produced his greatest ever works.

    S.... S....

    This was in 1979. He formed tin machine in 1989. Tin machine was bad

    S.... S....

    @The Tom You're wrong. Tin Machine were fantastic.

    S.... S....

    Scot Scotland thats an unpopular opinion. Most people considered tin machine bowie’s worst work

    S.... S....

    @The Tom They're wrong. that's all there is to say on the matter.

  38. A.... B....

    His sisters were mean to him

  39. G.... ....

    From 2:42 and on in such a weird fever dream

  40. A.... x....

    Only positive comments. Wonderful! Nobody can dislike mr Bowie.❤

  41. C.... B....

    He was a good dancer.

  42. J.... W....

    I was just wondering if this were the closing credits to Dirty Harry.

  43. J.... W....

    00:52 AAAAAAAND QUE THE TWIST........

  44. M.... L....

    Uma das melhores músicas de um dos maiores ícones da história ♡☆

  45. s.... ....

    Love that Adrian Belew solo.

  46. P.... M....

    David Bowie was so ahead of his time with the whole transsexual thing !

  47. R.... ....

    02:40 It's Mary from the Great British Bake Off!

  48. p.... 1....

    Yet another genius song to add to the collection.

  49. W.... L....

    "learn to drive and everything" - my favorite line in this song

  50. S.... H....

    Great song from a great album! I love Bowie in drag, in three different personas! Very funny! He he!
    Thanks for uploading oh-true-David-Bowie-fan!
    sttgaegoaktd

  51. g.... ....

    If I was a boy I would own this f*cking world.

  52. B.... C....

    Effing genius.

  53. �.... ....

    when you're a cat
    other cats... check you out

  54. J.... B....

    David is so cute in this video. I like the way he dances.

  55. R.... T....

    loved this song for years - but never saw the video til today! Sooo good!

  56. M.... ....

    Mr. Bowie could say he's man enough to wear a dress if he damned well felt like it.

  57. M.... ....

    Who, in David's life do they represent? Mother, Girlfriend, Grand Mama?

    M.... ....

    Why would they represent any of them? Don't think he ever wrote about any of his female relatives. The inspiration was the Berlin drag scene, specifically Romy Haag.

    M.... ....

    Ann White, it is just a question. Why wouldn't they? Maybe the older female image is an old school teacher.

    M.... ....

    The old one is Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo (according to some of the comments in this thread). The drag scenes are inspired by Romy Haag, a drag artist, not women that Bowie knew. The song isn't about David Bowie's own family or childhood.

  58. D.... M....

    M.O.R.!!!

  59. S.... A....

    I like the part where he sang about boys

  60. L.... D....

    il bouge d'enfer! Que lui pour assurer comme ça! c'es merevilleux!

  61. L.... D....

    J'adore Bowie! Mais la coupe...

  62. P.... M....

    Love his moves! Miss you... 👨‍🎤

  63. D.... ....

    RIP Mick Ronson what that man did for David, for glam rock, for us all who listened to those 3-4 albums he wrote, arranged and produced alongside Bowie, in some cases did more than David. The transformer albume, all that music, that was Ronno. Those albums he did for Ian Hunter, as well as All the young dudes. But most important of all to remember is, what a great guy Mick was.

  64. L.... S....

    I LOVED this - it damn near gave my father a stroke when Bowie came on TV looking like this. You can't imagine the utter dreariness of 1970s Yorkshire. Bowie, Bolan, Mercury put some life into our world.

  65. T.... B....

    Bowie el Picasso de la música. Genio maravilloso

  66. F.... G....

    *Marilyn Monroe + Elvis Presley = David Bowie.*

  67. T.... D....

    Why do I oddly dance like Bowie

  68. J.... S....

    Love it!

  69. B.... D....

    Bowie's moves are my oxygen.

  70. M.... A....

    Adrian Belew makes that guitar blow up at the end. It sounds like a broken television or a radio you buy at the Goodwill (second hand store)

  71. T.... K....

    Still in my top 10 videos of all time.

  72. E.... G....

    tHE DRAG MOMENT THO

  73. M.... Z....

    I remember seeing this as a kid and being like "WTF was he thinking!? This is weird sht!". Now at 32 I'm like "This sht is genius!!!" Love you Bowie: a true original. ❤

  74. C.... M....

    2:25 wow I love Sasha Velour

  75. K.... P....

    This is so Bowie

  76. D.... ....

    RIP Mick Ronson...

  77. o.... ....

    Pls hit the woah

  78. m.... t....

    Que vacilon con las coristas...Magic.David.

  79. a.... j....

    This is the greatest music video I've ever seen. No exaggeration.

  80. A.... P....

    40 years! ❤️

  81. P.... C....

    And we have exhibit A as to why my taste in men is fucked 😂

  82. r.... e....

    This is a great Gay anthem

  83. M.... .....

    This has to be the most unabashedly creative daring and sexually fetishized music video in the history of them. Bowie’s love of Kirchner is obvious (Two Against the World) on the catwalk runway scene. The unsung hero of all of this is imho Geo. Murray, prolly the greatest “outside” electric bassist of his day.

  84. S.... ....

    Love the granny at the end while eno is going nuts with the that sound

    S.... ....

    That is Bowie doing Garbo!

  85. J.... K....

    Lord he's beautiful as a girl. Especially in the pink dress goddamn. Makes me question my sexuality.

  86. B.... P....

    Which episode of Ru Paul's drag race is this?

    B.... P....

    RuPaul hadn't even made his debut on public access TV when this video was made.

    B.... P....

    Maruka1 r/woosh

  87. N.... C....

    love him

  88. E.... -....

    I think Lady Gaga was inspired by the cat walking stick outro scene part ??? Both legendary

  89. J.... R....

    Lodger, one of his madcap albums!

  90. B.... P....

    2:34
    I C O N I C

  91. N.... 6....

    Heaven loves ya !

  92. B.... B....

    "They'll never clone ya."
    Let's clone him just to prove him wrong

    B.... B....

    Hell yeah!
    But then again, I don't think the clone would be as good, you know? Nothing beats the original.
    Still like to clone him though.

  93. g.... h....

    I first heard this song in Queer as Folk. Great.

  94. b.... ....

    nothing stands in your way when you're a boy.

    b.... ....

    You realize this song is ironic and is a play on the idea that men have it all, right?

  95. P.... R....

    ay me muero de amor

  96. N.... ....

    As if there is some uniqueness to the whole guy in drag within the music business or any media actually for that matter? Constantly see men dressing or acting like a woman in the media, its kind weird and strange....just saying since the comment section talks about his drag as if it were something off the wall in Vogue.

    N.... ....

    At the time of the video, it was unique. Bowie was unique. His drag interpretations of three different women, especially the Garbo at the end, are amazing.

    N.... ....

    @huascar66 You are correct. At the time Bowie had been hanging out in drag bars in NYC with Iggy Pop. Drag was apparently new to him and he paid homage to it in this video.

  97. J.... s....

    Lodger has some great tracks

  98. B.... s....

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  99. N.... J....

    Bowie was such an epic artistic genius, Lodger is an album full of songs I hated on first listen but only because they are so unconventional and unusual, now I can’t get them out of my head