It's Not True

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	The first of a collection of "list" songs in Townshend's early songwriting ("I'm a Boy", "Run Run Run", and the most successful, "Substitute"). A pretty ordinary song whose most interesting features include some strong high harmonies, a vocal rendered in a very defensive tone (which is to become a Who staple), and the comical climactic line "It's not true, so there!"	Bruce Beatlefan	December 22, 2007

Lyrics

It's not true

You say I've been in prison
You say I've got a wife
You say I've had help doing
Everything throughout my life

chorus:
It's not true, it's not true
I'm telling you
'Cause I'm up here and you're nowhere
It's not true, so there

I haven't got eleven kids
I weren't born in Baghdad
I'm not half-Chinese either
And I didn't kill my dad

(chorus)

If you hear more rumors
You can just forget them too
Fools start the rumors
None of them are true

(chorus)

You say I've been in prison
You say I've got a wife
You say I've had help doing
Everything throughout my life

I haven't got eleven kids
I weren't born in Baghdad
I'm not half-Chinese either
And I didn't kill my dad

(chorus)

(chorus)

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