Released: May 5, 1981
Songwriter: Tom Petty
Producer: Jimmy Iovine Tom Petty
[Verse 1]
Well they put me out on the old Kings Road
I didn't know which way to go
There was people all around wearing funny looking clothes
Some boys, some girls, some I don't know
[Chorus 1]
I didn't know which way to go
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
[Verse 2]
Rockabilly music was in the air
When I looked in the door, they said come over here
They had socks and shirts and underwear
That I'd seen before, but I don't know where
[Chorus 1]
I didn't know which way to go
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
[Verse 3]
A Pakistani man said, "Listen here
Let me fix you up before you go back there
You can't get 'em in the USA
Not in New York City, not in West LA."
[Chorus 2]
I thought about it, said I don't know
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
Well they put me out on the old Kings Road
I didn't know which way to go
There was people all around wearing funny looking clothes
Some boys, some girls, some I don't know
[Chorus 1]
I didn't know which way to go
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
[Verse 2]
Rockabilly music was in the air
When I looked in the door, they said come over here
They had socks and shirts and underwear
That I'd seen before, but I don't know where
[Chorus 1]
I didn't know which way to go
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
[Verse 3]
A Pakistani man said, "Listen here
Let me fix you up before you go back there
You can't get 'em in the USA
Not in New York City, not in West LA."
[Chorus 2]
I thought about it, said I don't know
I'm a new world boy on the old Kings Road
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- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Learning to Fly
- American Girl
- The Waiting
- Breakdown
- Refugee
- Into the Great Wide Open
- You Got Lucky
- Here Comes My Girl
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- Walls (Circus)
- Even the Losers
- Insider
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Rebels
- It’ll All Work Out
- Christmas All Over Again
- Swingin’
- Southern Accents
- Listen to Her Heart
- I Need to Know
- Room at the Top
- A Face in the Crowd
- Jammin’ Me