#ralph mctell

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: January 1, 1969

Lyrics:

Have you seen the old man

In a closed-down market?

Kicking up the paper

With his worn out shoes

In his eyes, you see no pride

And held loosely at his side

Yesterday's paper

Telling yesterday's news

So, how can you tell me you're lonely?

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl

Who walks the streets of London?

Dirt in her hair

And her clothes in rags

She's no time for talking

She just keeps right on walking

Carrying her home

In two carrier bags

So, how can you tell me you're lonely?

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

I'll show you something to make you change your mind

In the all night café

At a quarter past eleven

Same old man

Sitting there on his own

Looking at the world

Over the rim of his teacup

Each tea lasts an hour

And he wanders home alone

So, how can you tell me you're lonely?

Don't say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old man

Outside the seaman's mission?

Memory fading with

The medal ribbons that he wears

In our winter city

The rain cries a little pity

For one more forgotten hero

And a world that doesn't care

Songwriter: Ralph McTell

So, how can you tell me you're lonely?

And say for you that the sun don't shine?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

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[jt1674]

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[hezekiahwakely]

John My Beloved is obviously a good jmart song from Martin's POV with a name-drop and everybody's already accounted that into their lives, but I was thinking I needed a switcheroo equivalent for Martin, and by god I think it's Song For Martin by Ralph McTell

[sweet-soul-sister]

Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Ralph McTell (Streets of London)

[tjathurman]

...and lead you round the Tower of London

[CW ghosts, death, suffocation, tobacco; parody of "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell; repost] Have you seen the old girl

Who walks the Tower of London

Face full of grace with a queenly charm?

She's no breath for talking,

she just keeps right on walking

Carrying her head

Right underneath her arm. So how can you tell me you're ghostly

And say your life's run out of time?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you round the Tower of London

I'll show you something

That'll make you lose your mind. And in the topmost turret

You'll meet Sir Walter Raleigh

Cursing at his fall like an angry tar

Looking at the world

With a chip on his shoulder

Each and every midnight

He smokes a mild cigar. So how can you tell me you're ghostly

And say your life has run out of time?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you round the Tower of London

I'll show you something

That'll make you lose your mind. And have you seen the playroom

Of the pair of ghostly princes?

There's endless games in a place like theirs.

Careful where you sit if you

Accept their invitation:

They don't have ghostly cushions

On all their ghostly chairs So how can you tell me you're ghostly

And say your life's run out of time?

Let me take you by the hand

And lead you round the Tower of London

I'll show you something

That'll make you lose your mind.

References: - Anne Boleyn was decapitated

- Raleigh introduced potatoes and tobacco to

Britain - "a mild cigar": ref to a famous commercial

for Hamlet cigars, featuring Raleigh - the princes were allegedly smothered with a

cushion by Richard III