This is the of the Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Old Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble...
A little bit of this, you like a bit of that
But in weather this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat A and thread the hand stitches of time Battling versus Jackie Burk Bobbing and weaving, an line
So step for step and light on our feet We'll travel many dim silent street
Would you like a bit of this, or a little bit of (Misses) A bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that The perpetual steady echo of the passing A continual dark river of In it's transience and in permanence But, when the streetlamp fills the with gold So many priceless bought and sold
So step for step and both light on our We'll travel many dim silent street (together)
Once Arnold Circus, and up through Petticoat Lane Past the well of shadows, and once back round Arm in arm, an abstracted air To where the stare Out of the upstairs Because we are like kings And these days last forever
Cos from Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Bay The Welsh and Irish wagtails, of midnight The music carousel enspilling out into bonfire light Sending half crazed shadows, dancing up the brick wall Of Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, ten feet tall
Whether one it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets Or Banglatown. We're all dancing in the moonlight, all On ground.
Oh, I'm just down to, I'm just floating down through Won't you come with me, to the Liberty of Folgate But wait! What's Dan And the golem
Purposefully nowhere, oh I'm happy just floating about (Have a banana) On a afternoon, the stallholders all call and shout To no-one in Avoiding people you know, you're just basking in own company The world's going by, but you're 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 taste of liberty A of everything you see
coming left and right Trying to flog you you don't need or want And a smiling takes your hand And drags you in his restaurant (ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)
There's a man trying hard to flog you moody DVDs You know? You've seen the film, it's and white, it's got no sound And a head pops up and down across 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 Norton Walking wild and free, in your hand coat, just to float In this little piece of You're a of everything you see
the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's, extortioners And night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, upon death Had placed a very hand, Some in and patches, Reeling inarticulate full of and inordinate vivacity That jars discordantly the ear And gives an aching sensation to both of eyeballs (Noisy and vivacity)
Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc
In the was a fear of the immigrant In the beginning was a fear of the He's made his way to the dark riverside
In the beginning was a of the immigrant In the beginning was a fear of the He's made his home there by the dark riverside
ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc
He made his home there down by the They made their there down by the riverside The sprang up from the dark river Thames
made their home there down by the riverside They made their homes there by the riverside The city sprang up from the mud of the Thames I'll say it
(Ha ha ha, right)
'Cos in the Liberty of Folgate Walking and free And in your hand coat Happy to float In this taste of liberty Cos a part of everything you see Yes, a part of everything you see
With a little bit of And a bit of that A little bit of what you like you no harm And you that
Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)