Fairweather Friend Lyrics - John Cale

Words and music: Garland Jeffreys 

Board boy, board boy, rolling down the road Board boy, board boy, what have you been told 

Do you wear your jeans of blue? 

Oh that way is paved with gold 

Board boy, board boy what have you been sold 

Yes boy, no boy, you don't have to use your head 

It's alright boy, you can use your feet instead 

You don't have to worry about the French emissary 

You don't have to dread 

Board boy, board boy, just listen to what I have said 

You can ask my poor old fairweather friend 

If the hills are hard to find 

If the misty mountain tops of May 

That'll make us change their minds. 

Board boy, board boy, rolling down the road 

Board boy, board boy, what have you been told. 

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Board boy, board boy, rolling down the road. 

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