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The Liberty of Norton Folgate
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- We Are LondonVer letra 3:39
Composición: Cathal J. Smyth[X]Na, na, na, na, na, na, naletra de We Are London
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
From Regent's Park mosque on to Baker Street
Down to the Cross where all the pipesmoke neat
To Somerstown where somethings never stop
The Roundhouse, The Marathon Bar and Camden Lock
You can make it your own hell or heaven
Live as you please
Can we make it if we all live together
As one big family?
Down to Chinatown for duck and rice
Along Old Compton Street, the boys are nice
On Carnaby you still can get the threads
If you wanna be a mod, a punk, a ted or a suedehead
You can make it your own hell or heaven
Live as you please
Can we make it if we all live together
As one big family?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London's talking
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London walking
In all the nightclubs, strip joints and the bars
From it's poorest paid to it's highest stars
The poets, plumbers, painters, spreads and sparks
From it's inner city to it's furthest parts
You can make it your own hell or heaven
Live as you please
Can we make it if we all live together
As one big family?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London's talking
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, we are London
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, London walking
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na - Forever YoungVer letra 4:36
Composición: Graham McPhersonMúsicos invitados: Amber Jolene (Backing Vocals), Sasha Paul (Backing Vocals), Jim Parmley (Percussion)[X]There was a time when I was youngerletra de Forever Young
And all the nights and days were long
And everyday just getting stronger
Like a sunflower in the sun, in the sun
Well Mr. Moon is counting backwards
Make the waters ebb and flow
And all the things we could and should have done
But them old regrets, well they'll come and go, just come and go
So stay forever young
Don't you do what I have done
Oh, stay forever young
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
See the freshness of your young face
Like a candle in the gloom
In the brightness in your smiling eyes
They're lighting up the room, the whole room
So stay forever young
Don't you do what I have done
Oh, stay forever young
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
So stay forever young
Don't you do what I have done
Oh, stay forever young
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
So stay forever young
Don't you do what I have done
Oh, stay forever young
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
So stay forever young
Don't you do what I have done
Oh, stay forever young
Before paradise lost and innocence gone
Before paradise lost and innocence gone - Dust DevilVer letra 3:44
Composición: Daniel M. Woodgate, Lee Músicos invitados: Simon Hale (Arranged By [Strings]), Simon Hale (Conductor [Strings]), Amber Jolene (Backing Vocals), Sasha Paul (Backing Vocals), Jim Parmley (Percussion), Steve Turner (10) (Saxophone), Millennia Strings (Strings), Mike Kearsey (Trombone), Joe Auckland (Trumpet)[X]Spy the little whizzkid, yeah she's streets aheadletra de Dust Devil
On top of the daybreak and the last one to bed
Keeps her gizmo under her pillow
Little dust devil whipping up a storm
Paving the way for dropouts
She's equanimous to the norm
Come early evening, well she's banging off the ceiling
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture"
Holds the toilet seat around her neck
Writes the landlord out another open cheque
Come the daybreak, well she's a self-made
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture
They surely would"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
And I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could paint you into my picture"
I said, "Come down, I am missing you
If these little fingers could draw you into my picture
They surely would" - The Liberty of Norton FolgateVer letra 10:11
Composición: Cathal J. Smyth, Graham McPherson, Mike BarsonMúsicos invitados: Simon Hale (Arranged By [Strings]), Simon Hale (Conductor [Strings]), Andrew Findon (Clarinet [Turkish]), Andrew Findon (Zurna), Andrew Findon (Duduk), Gavyn Wright (Leader), The London Session Orchestra (Strings), Sirish Kumar (Tabla)[X]This is the story of the Liberty of Norton Folgateletra de 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
'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 - Sugar & Spice
- Clerkenwell PolkaVer letra 4:20
Composición: Cathal J. SmythMúsicos invitados: Mark Brown (6) (Clarinet), Mike Kearsey (Trombone), Joe Auckland (Trumpet), David Powell (Tuba)[X]I request that the best of our mindsletra de Clerkenwell Polka
Be impressed to repent of their crimes
For the truth is there all for to see
What can be said in defense of man's tyranny?
To declare too content of the view
That to conform to the norm is what you do
If you live wracked in anger and in shame
The only road you'll find is that hard road, my friend
I concur to defer to the sound
Of discontent when it's meant by the crowd
If in fairness is how you see it end
The only road you'll walk is that hard road, my friend
And the papers they were printing they did sell
In Clerkenwell there were presses turning
And the emigrates they boarded ships and sailed
They could not fail to bring passions burning
Why deny that the lie that is sent
Makes you live work and die for some rent
If you're happy then to leave it up to them
The only road you'll know is that hard road, my friend
We resent the intent of the few
Who do conspire to acquire what's our due
If you don't know your rights and defend
The only road you'll go is that hard road, my friend
If you fall and you crawl towards debt
And the sum it is more than what was lent
If you can't keep your eyes on the change
The only road you'll walk is that bloody road, my friend - BingoVer letra 4:08
Composición: Lee , Mike BarsonMúsicos invitados: Jim Parmley (Percussion), Steve Turner (10) (Saxophone), Mike Kearsey (Trombone), Joe Auckland (Trumpet)[X]Oh, drawn by a multitude of different factorsletra de Bingo
What make this town my home
And God save the piss head and thespian actor
Relieved of everything they own
But look at me now, I'm curled up like a fat cat
Kicked into hell and back
So I throw in the towel to a bouquet of laughter
I'm rolling along the ground
Oh, this town
Cartwheels, tripping out of control again
Oh, this town
Balancing, falling off into no man's land
And Old Mother Redcap
She pours out her heart but of all the tales she tells
The Kentiston Cobbler
Winks over my shoulder and bids me a fond farewell
But be forewarned in Camden Town
Over and over and out
Oh, this town
Cartwheels, tripping out of control again
Oh, this town
I'm balancing, I'm falling off into no man's land
Oh, this clown
Who expects, yeah nothing from a nothing so
Just leave me to drown
In the tears of a very happy old man
Oh, this town
Cartwheels, tripping out of control again
Oh, this town
I'm balancing, I'm falling off into no man's land
Oh, this old clown
Who expects, yeah, nothing from a nothing so
Just leave me to drown
In the tears of bingo - RainbowsVer letra 3:21
Composición: Daniel M. Woodgate, Lee[X]Petulant elbows, tiny kicking feetletra de Rainbows
I've been waiting for this moment, I'm on a roll
I've spent infinity counting silent sheep
I don't need no more sleep, no, I'm all ready to go
I think today is gonna be my birthday
So I'm taking in the air as if it were my last
I've got nothing to lose, I've got nothing to gain
So just like where I'm coming from
There's only one place to go
There's only one place to aim
I'm sliding down rainbows
Out into the wild uncultivated child
I'm taking in the sideshow
Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event
Now I'm gatecrashing into your scene
Like it or lump it I'm with the team
No invitation, pupil dilation
A little bit pissed but hey, it's only a dream
I ain't got nothing to lose, I ain't got nothing to gain
So just like where I'm coming from
There's only one place to go
There's only one place to aim
I'm sliding down rainbows
Out into the wild uncultivated child
I'm taking in the sideshow
Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event
I'm sliding down rainbows
Out into the wild uncultivated child
I'm taking in the sideshow
Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event
I feel today it could be my birthday
So I'm taking in the air as if it was my last
I ain't got nothing to lose, I ain't got nothing to gain
So just like where I'm coming from
There's only one place to go
There's only one place to aim, oh
I'm sliding down rainbows
Out into the wild uncultivated child
I'm taking in the sideshow
Where angels heaven sent prepare us for the main event
I'm sliding down rainbows
Out into the wild uncultivated child - That CloseVer letra 4:10
Composición: Chris Foreman, Graham McPherson[X]Ready for love, we were so close it was scaryletra de That Close
We were that close I couldn't tell you
Ready for love, we were that close to getting it right
Crashing and burning
Remember them summer days
When we took whatever came our way
And get away, hey but not too far
We take a spin 'round in your rusty old car
'Cause no one else could know
What we've done and seen
No one else could see
It's all a hazy dream
Remember them summer days
When we took whatever came our way
And get away, yeah but not too far
We take a spin 'round in your broken down car
Slipping and sliding
Skidding on the surface
Skidding on the surface
With the brakes jammed down
Slow motion, sliding head-on
And then we were that close
Remember them summer days
When we took whatever came our way
And get away, hey but not too far
We take a spin 'round in your rusty old car
We were so close it was scary
We were that close I couldn't tell you
Ready for love, ready for love
Remember them summer days
When we took whatever came our way
And get away, yeah but not too far
We take a spin 'round in your broken down car
Ready for love, remember them summer days
When we took whatever came our way
And get away, yeah but not too far - MK IIVer letra
[X]There's a Mark II parked on the cobblesletra de MK II
Of a Chelsea Mews and out of the shadows
Steps a figure, silver mohair bright
Into the moonshine out into the night
And in the darkness one stray moonbeam
Creeps through the curtains on the unmade bed
She stares at the ceiling, just an empty feeling
He starts the Jaguar and drives away
And no one breathes a word
'Cause even breathing can be heard
Right through the silver screen
They've made inquiries, they'll make it easy
But she won't answer 'cause she's not really there
He throws his gloves out the open window
He lights a cigarette and drives away
He starts the Jaguar and drives away - Idiot ChildVer letra 3:19
Composición: Lee , Mike BarsonMúsicos invitados: Steve Turner (10) (Saxophone), Mike Kearsey (Trombone), Joe Auckland (Trumpet)[X]Although he had past historyletra de Idiot Child
The mischief has soon passed
A spunky little kid from North West 5
Longed for the mystery to last
Free as the wind
Wild as a march hare
With oh so much to learn
Careful that you don't get burned
The boy who wouldn't grow up
Chasing his own tail
The boy who couldn't grow up
An outing on bail
Oh, idiot child clutching to life
Always made to grow up, always told to shut up
Idiot child clutching to life
Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail
Oh, behold the gherkin men
With their military stance did shout
Mark my words Mrs. Hutchinson
We'll sort this laddie out
The parent teachers association
Secretly fixed a date
A giant swoop is authorized
To sign and seal his fate
Oh, sent away for a year and a day
He was taken so orderly
And drilled into his delicate shell
To behave normally
Oh, idiot child clutching to life
The boy who never grew up, always told to shut up
Idiot child clutching onto life
Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail
Somethings are so predictable ain't they
Somethings just never change, look around
Most animals are trained at an early age
But some of us just never lay down
Idiot child just clutching to life
The boy who never grew up, always made to shut up
Idiot child clutching to life
Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail
Idiot child clutching to life
The boy who never grew up, always told to shut up
Idiot child clutching onto life
Always destined to fail, always ending up in jail
Always ending up in jail, always destined to fail - On The TownVer letra 4:32
Composición: Daniel M. Woodgate, Mike BarsonMúsicos invitados: Simon Hale (Arranged By [Strings]), Simon Hale (Conductor [Strings]), Millennia Strings (Strings)[X]Oh, it's early in the morningletra de On The Town
It's raining and the streetlights
Streaming through my windows
Casting shadows on the ceiling
The room is oh so empty
Stand against the wall
The clock is ticking loudly
It's deafening in this quiet room
Oh, how long have I been waiting?
What am I to say?
Inside I don't want to stay
Oh, 'cause I've been on the town
Sick and tired of your frown
I can hear you in the hallway
It's not unusual you're there everyday
Only now the hour's so late
Every minute I've had to wait
Has been an eternity
But now you're back again with me
The clock says five fifteen
Oh, won't you tell me where you've been?
Won't you tell me where you've been?
What am I to say?
Inside I don't want to stay
Oh, 'cause I've been on the town
Sick and tired of your frown
And if I met another guy
Who could not say I would not lie?
I saw you in the morning
It was just like every other day
You kissed me on the cheek
I said, "Here comes another week"
You glanced out of the window
And I asked you where your thoughts go
"I'm just tired I guess", you said
And turned away your head
You just turned away your head
What am I to say?
Inside I don't want to stay
Oh, 'cause I've been on the town
Sick and tired of your frown
What am I to say?
I could not stand another day
Oh, I wish that you could see
That it's all over for me
And if I met another guy
Who could not say I would not lie
'Cause I've been on the town
I've been on the town
'Cause I've been on the town
I've been on the town
I've been on the town
I've been on the town
I've been on the town
I've been on the town
I've been on the town
On the town
I've been on the town