A Man With A Box

In the 1920's a man with a box came to stay
In the 1930's the man with a box went away
In the 1940's a man with a box went berserk
In the 1950's the man with a box left for work

A man with a box could be loving and he knows it
But a man with a box don't work that way
A man with a box could be loving if he tried it
But his rainclouds are permanently grey

In the 1960's a man with a box opened up
In the 1970's the man with a box drained his cup
In the 1980's a man with a box came along
And in the 1990's a man with a box wrote this song

A man with a box could be loving and he knows it
But a man with a box don't work that way
A man with a box could be loving if he tried it
But his rainclouds are permanently gray

A man with a box made a train escape from Euston
While his butterflies went wild in the woods
The police report stated that every year at Margate
The daisies grew a different shade of brown, man