This story starts way back when we were wet behind the ears
As you can imagine, I'm going back some years
A band that we looked up to said 'Come and do a show'
Got there nice and early, couldn't wait to get our go
But then the management came in and said 'You cannot play,
We're just more important and we always get our way'
Looking round backstage, we found a trunk of beer,
We're not leaving here with nothing, so empty it in here and...

CHORUS
I drank The Levellers' rider
TIMES 4

Scrolling forward now and we're about to play the Daze
They change their minds again, the guitar stays in it's place
You wouldn't think the management would pull that kind of stunt
By all accounts he's a really nice bloke
But at least Fleece give him the stink finger
At least Fleece give hum the stink finger
We were older and wiser, or at least that's what we thought
But you couldn't say that of the people that we brought
The rider was left out again and those punk hippy ravers
Couldn't live with themselves if they'd left all that Stella

And they drank the Levellers' rider...

Just the recent past some rainy festy in September
Trapped in a portacabin surrounded by water
Stage hit by lightning, ran out of cider
What's that floating past?
It's The Levellers' rider!

And...

If you get to meet your idols maybe miss that meeting
It's more than likely hat they'll be disappointing
I know I should have seen it from their point of view
And I'm truly sorry if I've done the same to you