Jam, The - The Eton Rifles Lyrics
Sup up your beer and collect your fags -
There's a row going on down near Slough
Get out your mat and pray to the West
I'll get out mine and pray for myself
But you didn't take a peep in their artillery room
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?
Hello-Hurray - what a nice day for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - I hope rain stops play for the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse,
Tore down the house of commons in your brand new shoes,
Composed a revolutionary symphony,
Hello-Hurray - cheers then, mate. It's the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - an extremist scrape with the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
What a catalyst you turned out to be:
Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea -
Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy...
What a catalyst you turned out to be:
Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea -
Left me standing like a naughty schoolboy...
We came out of it naturally the worst:
Beaten and bloody, and I was sick down my shirt.
We were no match for their untamed wit,
Though some of the lads said they'd be back next week.
Hello-Hurray - it's the price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - it's the price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Hello-Hurray - I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles!
Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles!
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Jam, The The Eton Rifles Comments
That bass line!
Bluebell Luke
love eating trifles too :-)
This goes back to the days when the lads of the town, used to kick the shit out of the Eton pricks.....Happy days...…… lollollollollollollollol #stillpricks
A very young paul weller!!!!
One og absolute fav..🇬🇧
How can you not like this?? Its the Jam!!!
~old memories :)
Q: What's Weller's favourite pastime?
A: Eating trifles...
I knew someone who was at the SWP 'Right to Work' march this song was based on. He says Weller was correct when the Eton mob started mouthing it off and the SWP organiser got the marchers riled up for a ruck with a bunch of 'Posh Schoolboys', then when it kicked off they fucked off and left them to it.
Probably one of the most historically accurate songs ever written.
eat your triffle
Off to see Foxton in From The Jam tonight in Newcastle
Hu lisin 2019?
I wonder, when the true events that the song alludes to happened were Boris Johnson and David Cameron still pupils at Eton. They're about the right sort of age. And certainly the right mentality, especially Boris.
Pickless PW: homage to Wilko J?
Drumming on this is great, Rick suited the Jam so well and was a cracking player.
the drummer has just come from a job interview
Paul Weller
Fantastic and fabulous artist.
Im always happy to listen
Specially driving a sport car
On the roads of europe
In summertime.
in the day i had a mk1 escort mexico
@Nick Prica Hello ...in the 70s
My father had an Escort a Cortina GT and a Capri V6.
I like english cars I had 2 Jag XJ.
And I will buy a Range Rover Sport soon. I like english music
Rolling Stones The Jam Paul Weller Richard Ashcroft...
Eton Rifles still, sadly, dominate us.
'All that rugby puts hairs on your chest
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?'
As relevant 40 years ago as it is today.
Those Eton Boys take you for mugs and they always have. Tell them otherwise - vote Labour :)
Best band ever .
weller does talk some crap and politics in the lyrics must confess i thought this song was a song about young officers called the eton rifles going off to fight in ww1
Today's teens can't write songs like this anymore. I was a teen when the Jam had their success and they could do no wrong. They were the band that really captured the essence of the streets in the UK in that era.
Weller is a musical genius .
Weller...a genial genius.
But try Richard Ashcroft too.
Pure Class!! 🇬🇧
British classic rock rocks.
Nowadays youngs listens to
Stupid Hip Hop and ignore the
Classics.
What a group.And the lyrics have deep political meanings behind alot of what Paul wrote,so young.will ALWAYS love THE JAM😏😘
Top band.😎🕴️👍🛵
Embarrassing
Aberdeen Sotland Jam fan for life!
Time less music brilliant
Prescient song.
No one is going to fuck with me anymore. I have decided:
So good.
THE MOD FATHER thanks Paul 😎
Brilliant!
Awesome! Such a pity that Paul Weller went off on a tangent when The Jam were at their peak.
Alf Williams very true Alf they had a lot more to give 😧
3 fucking great singles and a top album in 79. I'm still in awe.
Burn't toast but hairs on my chest. But the Eton boys are soft. It's the Vikings who save England in the 21st century. Hahaha. Great song.
the origin of Justin Bieber
should never have broken up plenty of great music left in the band 😧
true class 🤘🤘
I love the way they have Rick Butler front and centre in a suit, on the drums!
Oh God how I didnt appreciate this at the time!!!....I was just a teenager...fuck me those were great days.....I just thought ALL music was this GOOD!!!.....ironically 1976/77/78/78/79/80 were just the BEST music of the 20th century!!!.............
I'll say it again, TOTP would have been a much better TV programme if the artist's were allowed to perform live!
It's thought that Weller's jetglow Rickenbacker 330 would eventually be so damaged that it was rebuilt into the Whamm guitar.
2019 still loving this track and singing along
WE ARE THE MODS
Mick Rudy and Paul the mod FATHER 🤘
What can i say best years of my life from mod to scooter boy in the early 80s fab
Paul Weller absolute genius
Mark Singleton a GENIUS
An anger that was genuine. Their music meant something. It was a resistance, a voice confronting the rise of Thatcherism. I am angry now, millions are angry, where are the voices now?
All coddled with their benefits and electronic prison cells. Life is simply too comfortable for revolution.
Rickenbacker bass is unmistakable!
Did the bassist write a song around his bass parts lol?
The whole song is fucking genus weller was just a young man as well, but that fucking bass god it's one of the best songs ever written.
An anger that was genuine. Their music meant something. It was a resistance, a voice confronting the rise of Thatcherism. I am angry now, millions are angry, where are the voices now?
Stephen Campbell people are to scared to say boo nowadays Stephen
I'm afraid Stephen that the Eton Boys still rule and always will with Johnson in power now. I was in NI in 79 when I think this came out, got injured and ended up as one of the One in ten that UB40 sang about - nothing changes and can now get worse!
@upthegills27 Mate I am from NI, my Dad was RUC and UDR. Love the UB40 reference - and you are right, the Posh Bastards will always rule, our job is to hold them to account (ha!) and failing that annoy them.
@Stephen Campbell Hi, your Dad was/is a brave man. I did two tours of NI, had a few stones bounce off my helmet and shield!! Unfortunately the Eton boys continue to rule and it remains the same - as UB40 sang - Don't be one of the One in Ten. All the best - give your Dad a pat on the back from me if he is still with you.
Post punk
He once threatened to vote for Thatcher, but the makers got to him.
The result, Red Wedge.
Slough is where it’s at
CLASS SÖNG👌👏😎🎼👈
My 10year old is in a band and the rest of his band all goto private school always think of this song when I'm taking him to practise. I say to him he s representing the working class hero s
In the late 70s early 80s I was a Mod, Parker SX 200 Lambretta.Us Council boys who were Mods use to sing this when we came across Privately Educated Public School Boys. I lived in Rochester and their was one there.
They sound like the early who
Shite of song
Sup up your beer and collect ur fags...
Paul is not good doing politics.
Estos ingleses eran GENIALES y punto pelota.
Eaten too much trifle more like
What a bass!!
In more uncharitable moments I question whether people like Paul Weller should have the vote; Stalinist chic.
Great tune great band
Imagine if a chimpanzee had lept onto Paul Weller's back halfway through the song. It would have been absolute chaos. BRAVO!
The best punk/converted to New Wave bands ever, possibly The Clash also. This is possibly the best time of my life...The creation of New Wave music.
Great bit of miming
Seems so tired and clichéd after all these years, cos it is!
"Hello hurray, its a wonderful day for, eating trifles, eating trifles"
Love the sound of a Rickenbacker bass....
This was recorded on a Fender.
@MusicalElitist1 Nah...
Slough does not get into many songs but it does here, and rightly so. Not far from Eton but a different world.
Ugh, stupid Top of the Pops. Let them play live, for crying out loud!
Amazingly inventive guitar bass and drums. Stellar musicians. Listen to live versions of this great song. I'm an old fucker maybe but we'll not see the likes of bands making lasting relevant music like this again
Eton does a brilliant service to the nation.
How exactly?
Shows what excellence can achieve; should be open to high achievers from any background. We should not level education down or prevent parents from spending their money as they choose. Labour seems sometimes to say: "Because everyone cannot go there, no one should."
@MusicalElitist1 Er...exactly.
''Eating trifles, eating trifles!''
The guitars indicate class 🤗💪🏼
They should have stay together forever ,
My Uncle played this to me a few times, great song, great talent and absolutely fab.
I was totally unfamiliar with The Jam. I like this song.
So they working class got their prole lefty ass kicked?
Peter Riples
3 players on fire (yeah, miming, okay). Bruce's bass. The Jam sound at its purest. 1979 was an epic year for singles.
Love (and miss) the Mod scene.
The sound sounds too even with the way he's moving to be live
It's Top of the Pops so the sound is pre-recorded
One of my best bands ever there music so Cool, The Jam, well don 4 your music, 5.4.2019, Col of Bristol City UK ✨ ✨ ✨.... ..... ..... ...... .
The work class will always smash the middle class scum bags
The older I get the better they are
Because. You're five months ago. I'm seeing comments, 3 years ago, on some, clips, no more recent,.....a lot have, hmm, evaporated/what,...??,...Sure you get better the older you are.
As a kid I thought is was Eating Trifles 😁
Eating trifles
Get out yer mats and pray to the west ,IL get out mine and pray for myself,fuckin amazing lyric
True Brit Pop ... the legends that are The Jam!
The bass line is brilliant
Bruce Foxton, bass god!
Nine, he is Mr burnels butler. Good all the same
Eat some trifles