Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the story of the Of Norton Folgate

Old Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble...

A little bit of this, would you a bit of that

But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a warm hat
A needle and thread the stitches of time
Battling Levinsky Jackie Burk
and weaving, an invisible line

So step for step and both on our feet
We'll travel many along dim street

Would you like a bit of this, or a bit of that? (Misses)
A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you that
The perpetual steady of the passing beat
A dark river of people
In it's transience and in it's
But, when the fills the gutter with gold
So many priceless items and sold

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

Once round 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 windows
Because we are living kings
And these days will forever

Cos sailors Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay
Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Bay
The Welsh and wagtails, mothers of midnight
The music hall carousel enspilling out into light
Sending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick
Of Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, bottles ten tall

Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower
Or Banglatown. We're all dancing in the moonlight, all
On ground.

Oh, I'm just walking down to, I'm just floating down
Won't you come me, to the Liberty of Norton Folgate
But wait!
What's
Dan
And the golem

Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm just floating about
(Have a banana)
On a Sunday afternoon, the all call and shout
To in particular
Avoiding people you know, just basking in you're own company
The technicolour world's going by, but you're the lead in your own

Cos in the Liberty of Norton
Walking wild and free, in your second coat,
Happy just to
In this taste of liberty
A of everything you see

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

There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you DVDs
You know? You've seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no
And a man's head pops up and
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 second hand coat,
Happy just to
In this piece of liberty
a part of everything you see

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

Ohhhh ahhhhhh etc etc

In the beginning was a of the immigrant
In the beginning was a fear of the
made his way down to the dark riverside

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

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

They made their there down by the riverside
They made their homes down by the riverside
The sprang up from the dark mud of the Thames
I'll say it

(Ha ha ha, right)

in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
Walking wild and
And in your second coat
just to float
In this little of liberty
Cos a part of everything you see
Yes, you're a part of you see

a little bit of this
And a bit of that
A little bit of you like does you no harm
And you that

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)