This is the story of the Liberty Of Norton FolgateOld Jack Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble.....A little bit of this, would you like a bit of thatBut in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hatA needle and thread the hand stitches of timeBattling Levinsky versus Jackie BurkBobbing and weaving, an invisible lineSo step for step and both light on our feetWe'll travel many along dim silent streetWould you like a bit of this, or a little bit of that? (Misses)A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you know thatThe perpetual steady echo of the passing beatA continual dark river of peopleIn it's transience and in it's permanenceBut, when the streetlamp fills the gutter with goldSo many priceless items bought and soldSo step for step and both light on our feetWe'll travel many along dim silent street (together)Once round Arnold Circus, and up through Petticoat LanePast the well of shadows, and once back round againArm in arm, with an abstracted airTo where the people stareOut of the upstairs windowsBecause we are living like kingsAnd these days will last foreverCos sailors from Africa, China and the archipelago of MalayJump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Tiger BayThe Welsh and Irish wagtails, mothers of midnightThe music hall carousel enspilling out into bonfire lightSending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wallOf Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet tallWhether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower HamletsOr Banglatown. We're all dancing in the moonlight, we're allOn borrowed ground.Oh, I'm just walking down to, I'm just floating down throughWon't you come with me, to the Liberty of Norton FolgateBut wait!What's that?Dan LenoAnd the Limehouse golem[Whistling duet]Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy just floating about(Have a banana)On a Sunday afternoon, the stallholders all call and shoutTo no-one in particularAvoiding people you know, you're just basking in you're own companyThe technicolour world's going by, but you're the lead in your own movieCos in the Liberty of Norton FolgateWalking wild and free, in your second hand coat,Happy just to floatIn this little taste of libertyA part of everything you seeThey're coming left and rightTrying to flog you stuff you don't need or wantAnd a smiling chap takes your handAnd drags you in his Uncles restaurant(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody DVDsYou know? You've seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no soundAnd a man's head pops up and downRight across your widescreen TV(Only a fiver)('Ow much?)(Alright, two for eight quid)(Ee-yar, ee-yar, look, I'm givin' it away)(Givin' it away!)Cos in the Liberty of Norton FolgateWalking wild and free, in your second hand coat,Happy just to floatIn this little piece of libertyYou're a part of everything you seeThere's the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's, extortionersAnd night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, upon whom deathHad placed a very sure hand,Some in shreds and patches,Reeling inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate vivacityThat jars discordantly upon the earAnd gives an aching sensation to both pair of eyeballs(Noisy and inordinate vivacity)Ohhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc]In the beginning was a fear of the immigrantIn the beginning was a fear of the immigrantHe's made his way down to the dark riversideIn the beginning was a fear of the immigrantIn the beginning was a fear of the immigrantHe's made his home there down by the dark riversideOhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc]He made his home there down by the riversideThey made their homes there down by the riversideThe city sprang up from the dark river ThamesThey made their home there down by the riversideThey made their homes there down by the riversideThe city sprang up from the dark mud of the ThamesI'll say it again(Ha ha ha, that's right)'Cos in the Liberty of Norton FolgateWalking wild and freeAnd in your second hand coatHappy just to floatIn this little taste of libertyCos you're a part of everything you seeYes, you're a part of everything you seeWith a little bit of thisAnd a little bit of thatA little bit of what you like does you no harmAnd you know thatOhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc. (repeat to end)]
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