text: You know, I remember a few years ago
  Some funny things used to happen to me,
  About 1956-57
  At that time there was no blues scene
  Or not really any kind of scene in London
  I used to go out and play my guitar in the streets
  And sing things with passing my hat down
  I remember one particular night
  I was playing the guitar in a little alleyway
  Just off of Wardour Street in Soho
  And I got busted by the police
  This policeman came up and dragged me and my guitar
  And my hat full of pennies off to the police station
  Anyway, the next day
  I had to appear in Marlboro Street Police Court
  And it was quite a day
  Police officer giving his evidence
  I was proceeding in a southerly direction, mi-lord
  When I heard strange sounds
  Coming from Wardour Place, mi-lord
  A sort of boogie-woogie music was being played
  On further investigation, I saw the defendant
  Standing there with a guitar and an old hat
  On the floor collecting pennies
  Well, I decided that he was contravening
  A breach of the peace there, as there was
  A traffic jam about five miles long down Wardour Street
  Wondering what all the fuss was about
  So then I arrested the defendant
  Ah, just one moment, officer
  Well, what is this boogie-woogie music
  Here were talking about?
  Oh, well, mi-lord, said the officer
  Getting out his notebook, obviously
  Been doing up his homework
  Its a kind of jazz-rhythm music
  Peculiar to the American-Negro
  Oh, and what was the defendant doing
  Playing this kind of music there in Wardour Street?
  Anyway I got off with a caution
  A years conditional discharge
  But Ill always remember that policeman
  And his boogie-woogie music
  So dont try to lay no boogie-woogie
  On the king of rock and roll