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The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Madness This is the story of the Liberty of Norton Folgate Old Jack Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble
A little bit of this, would you like a bit of that? But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat
A needle and thread, the hand stitches of time The cattling Lavinski versus Jackie Burke Bobbing and weaving an invisible line
So step for step and both light on our feet We'll travel many a long, dim, silent street
Would you like a bit of this or a little bit of that, missus? A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that
The perpetual steady echo of the passing beat A continual dark river of people In their transience and in its permanence
But when the streetlamp fills the gutter with gold So many priceless items bought and sold
So step for step and both light on our feet We'll travel many a long, dim, silent street together
Once 'round Arnold Circus, up through Petticoat Lane Past The Well of Shadows and once back round again
Arm in arm with an abstracted air To where the people stared at the upstairs windows Because we are living like kings and these days will last forever
'Cause sailors from Africa, China and the Archipelago of Malay Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwell's Tiger Bay The Welsh and Irish Wagtails, mothers of midnight The music hall carousal is spilling out into bonfire light
Sending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall Of Mr.Truman's beer factory waving bottles ten feet tall
Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel Tower Hamlets or Bangle Town We're all dancing in the moonlight We're all on borrowed ground
Oh, I'm just walking down to, I'm just floating down through Won't you come with me to the Liberty of Norton Folgate?
But wait, what's that? Dan Leno and a Limehouse Golem
Purposefully walking nowhere Oh, I'm happy just floating about, have a banana On a Sunday afternoon The stall holders all call and shout to no-one in particular
Avoiding people you know You're just basking in your own company The Technicolor worlds going by But you're the lead in your own movie 更多更详尽歌词 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔镜歌词网
'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free In your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little taste of liberty A part of everything you see
They're coming left or right Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or want And a smiling chap takes your hand And drags you in his uncle's restaurant
There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody DVDs You know you've seen the film It's black and white, it's got no sound And a man's head pops up and down right across you wide screen TV
Only a fiver Alright two for eight quid
'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free In your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little piece of liberty You're a part of everything you see
'Cause it's steady old fellows, pickpockets Dandies, extortioners and night wanderers The feeble, the ghastly Upon whom death had placed a very sure hand
Some in shreds and patches Reeling inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate vivacity Which jars discordantly upon the ear And it gives an aching sensation to both pair of eyeballs
In the beginning I'd the fear of the immigrant In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant He's made his way down to the dark riverside
In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant In the beginning was the fear of the immigrant He made his home there by the dark riverside
He made his home there down by the riverside They made their homes there down by the riverside The city sprang from the dark river Thames
They made their home there down by the riverside They made their homes there down by the riverside The city sprang up from the dark mud of the Thames I say it again
'Cause in the Liberty of Norton Folgate walking wild and free And in your second hand coat, happy just to float In this little taste of liberty 'Cause you're a part of everything you see Yes, you're a part of everything you see
With a little bit of this and a little bit of that A little bit of what you like does you no harm and you know that
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