...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
















