We only knew each other by letter I went to meet her off the train When the smoke had cleared and the dust was still She was standing there and speaking my name I guarantee she looked like an angel I couldn't think of w.. Read »

You got your toecaps reinforced with steel Hard-wearing sole and heel Make those tired feet feel like new Take your pick, black or Brown Great for the country or the man in town You're gonna need a quality shoe You don.. Read »

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it? Juliet says hey it.. Read »

Rüdiger stands in the rain and the snow Collector of autographs Names upon photographs Faces of people who everyone knows Rüdiger lives in a place on his own Briefcase and spectacles Strange and respectable He knows.. Read »

I am Jeremiah Dixon I am a Geordie boy A glass of wine with you, sir And the ladies I'll enjoy All Durham and Northumberland Is measured up by my own hand It was my fate from birth To take my mark upon the earth... H.. Read »

These tables are haunted By the ghost of Las Vegas Their chips were once mountains But they came here to play They could take me if they wanted But I have nothing worth counting And like the sands of Nevada They go dri.. Read »

Well now the school Christmas party is coming Ain't doing rugby no more McIntyre teaching us waltzing Out on the gymnasium floor Nobody battered or bleeding Nobody's tattered and torn McIntyre's dim, loud in the gym We.. Read »

You say I'm the greatest bound for glory Well the word is out and I learned I got the latest side of the story You're pulling out before you get burned Well your hands are squeezing me down to the bone I never saw you .. Read »

On Silvertown way the cranes stand high Quiet and gray against the still of the sky They won't quit and lay down though the action has died They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side From the poisonous drains .. Read »

Two in the morning dry-dock town The river rolls away in the night Little gypsy moth she's all tied down She quiver in the wind and the light Yeah and a sailing ship is just held down in chains From the lazy days of sa.. Read »