Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the story of the 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 weather this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat
A needle and thread the stitches of time
Battling versus Jackie Burk
Bobbing and weaving, an invisible

So for step and both light on our feet
We'll travel many along dim 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 transience and in it's permanence
But, when the streetlamp the gutter with gold
So many items bought and sold

So step for step and light on our feet
We'll travel many along dim silent (together)

Once round Arnold Circus, and up through Lane
Past the well of shadows, and once round again
Arm in arm, with an air
To where the people
Out of the upstairs
we are living like kings
And these days will last

Cos sailors from Africa, and the archipelago of Malay
Jump ship ragged and penniless into Tiger Bay
The Welsh and wagtails, mothers of midnight
The hall 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 calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Hamlets
Or Banglatown. We're all in the moonlight, we're all
On ground.

Oh, I'm walking down to, I'm just floating down through
Won't you come with me, to the of Norton Folgate
But wait!
that?
Dan
And the Limehouse

Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy floating about
(Have a banana)
On a Sunday afternoon, the stallholders all and shout
To no-one in
people you know, you're just basking in you're own company
The technicolour world's by, but you're the lead in your own movie

Cos in the Liberty of Norton
Walking wild and free, in second hand coat,
Happy just to
In this little of liberty
A part of you see

They're coming left and
Trying to you stuff you don't need or want
And a smiling chap your hand
And you in his Uncles restaurant
(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)

There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody
You know? You've seen the film, black 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 and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy to float
In this piece of liberty
You're a of everything you see

There's the old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's, extortioners
And night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, upon whom
Had placed a very hand,
in shreds and patches,
Reeling inarticulate of noisy and inordinate vivacity
That jars discordantly the ear
And gives an aching sensation to pair of eyeballs
(Noisy and vivacity)

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc

In the beginning was a fear of the
In the beginning was a fear of the
He's his way down to the dark riverside

In the was a fear of the immigrant
In the beginning was a of the immigrant
He's made his home there down by the dark

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc

He made his there down by the riverside
They made their homes there down by the
The sprang up from the dark river Thames

They made their home there down by the
They their 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
wild and free
And in second hand coat
Happy to float
In this little of liberty
Cos you're a part of you see
Yes, a part of everything you see

With a little bit of
And a little bit of
A little bit of what you like you no harm
And you that

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)