Nick Parker's video: Down With The Yoof - Nick Parker

Down With The Yoof is the first single taken from the 2017 album Besta Venya by Nick Parker. It is available from all your favourite digital outlets. Typing in the word "Yoof" will sort you out. The album is available on CD at www.nick-parker.co.uk (or more directly - http://nickparker.bigcartel.com/product/besta-venya-2017) From Monday 1st May the album will be available through digital outlets. Down With The Yoof is written from the point of view of Nick's teenage children who suspect he might be trying too hard to cling on to his. The lyrics should you want them... We started in St. Margaret’s Hospice then YMCA now it’s British Heart Foundation it’s the seventh one today and I’m wading through the PC games and books and DVDs so far I’ve found more than twenty seven Bourne Identitys and I sit down by the changing room and have a little rest and I see you with a Wrangler top held up against your chest I realise you’re serious and my heart begins to sink as you smile and suck in your gut and ask “What do you think?” You should put that shirt back on the rail, pretend it wasn’t there We all kept quiet when you mentioned growing out your hair But someone’s gotta tell you and I feel kinda bad But I don’t wanna be the kid with the double denim dad I don’t mind you hugging me in front of all my mates And I let it go when you say ‘bae’, ‘amazeballs’, ‘totes’ and ‘blates’ And I understand that sometimes you are gonna wanna dance Even if it is the can-can you did-did last year in France I can even cope with Speedos when you take me to the pool Or flirting with my RE teacher at meetings after school Or hoonin’ down the High Street, music blaring out the roof Although Besta Venya’s not exactly ‘Down with the Yoof’ You can put that shirt back on the rail, pretend it wasn’t there We all kept quiet when you mentioned growing out your hair But someone’s gotta tell you and I feel kinda bad But I don’t wanna be the kid with the double denim dad I know it’s your decision and you have every right But Whitney dressing up as Britney’s not a pretty sight I know you’re getting older and I know it must be hard but know that I am proud of you just the way you are So put that shirt back on the rail, pretend it wasn’t there We all kept quiet when you mentioned growing out your hair Someone’s got to tell you and I feel kinda bad But I don’t wanna be the kid with the double denim dad No I don’t wanna be the kid with the double denim dad