People ask me how come I'm still alive & I don't know what to say When I was growing up if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street & asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty with five kids & four grandkids & houses in Buckinghamshire & California I wouldn't have put money on me no fking way But here I am ready to tell my story in my own words for the first time A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty I've done some bad things in my time But I ain't the devil I'm just John Osbourne a working class kid from Aston who quit his job in the factory & went looking for a good time