This is the of the Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Old Jack Norris, the musical and the cadging ramble...
A little bit of this, would you like a bit of
But in like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat A needle and the hand stitches of time Battling Levinsky versus Jackie Bobbing and weaving, an invisible
So step for step and both on our feet We'll travel many dim silent street
you like a bit of this, or a little bit of that? (Misses) A bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that The perpetual steady echo of the passing A continual dark of people In it's transience and in it's But, the streetlamp fills the gutter with gold So many priceless bought and sold
So step for and both light on our feet We'll many along dim silent street (together)
Once round Circus, and up through Petticoat Lane Past the well of shadows, and once round again Arm in arm, with an air To the people stare Out of the windows Because we are living like And these days last forever
Cos sailors Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay Jump ship ragged and penniless into Tiger Bay The Welsh and wagtails, mothers of midnight The music hall carousel enspilling out bonfire light half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall Of Mr beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet tall
Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Hamlets Or Banglatown. We're all in the moonlight, we're all On ground.
Oh, I'm just walking to, I'm just floating down through you come with me, to the Liberty of Norton Folgate But wait! What's Dan And the Limehouse
Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy just floating (Have a banana) On a Sunday afternoon, the all call and shout To no-one in Avoiding people you know, you're just in you're own company The technicolour world's going by, but the lead in your own movie
Cos in the Liberty of Folgate Walking wild and free, in your second coat, Happy just to In this little of liberty A part of you see
They're coming left and Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or And a chap takes your hand And you in his Uncles restaurant (ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)
There's a Chinese man hard to flog you moody DVDs You You've seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no sound And a man's pops up and down Right your widescreen TV (Only a fiver) ('Ow much?) (Alright, two for quid) (Ee-yar, ee-yar, look, I'm it away) (Givin' it away!)
Cos in the Liberty of Folgate wild and free, in your second hand coat, Happy just to In little piece of liberty You're a part of you see
There's the old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's, extortioners And night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, whom death Had placed a very hand, in shreds and patches, Reeling inarticulate full of and inordinate vivacity That discordantly upon the ear And an aching sensation to both pair of eyeballs (Noisy and vivacity)
Ohhhh ahhhhhh etc etc
In the was a fear of the immigrant In the beginning was a of the immigrant He's made his way down to the riverside
In the beginning was a of the immigrant In the beginning was a of the immigrant He's made his there down by the dark riverside
ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc
He made his home there down by the They made their homes down by the riverside The city up from the dark river Thames
They their home there down by the riverside They made homes there down by the riverside The city sprang up from the mud of the Thames I'll say it
(Ha ha ha, right)
'Cos in the of Norton Folgate Walking and free And in your second hand just to float In this little taste of Cos you're a of everything you see Yes, you're a part of you see
With a bit of this And a bit of that A little bit of what you like does you no And you that
Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)