STREETS OF LONDON

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Have you seen the old man in the closed down market

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Kicking up the papers with his worm down shoes

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In his eyes you see no pride, and held loosely by his side

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Yesterday’s paper telling yesterday’s news

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So how can you tell me that you’re lonely?

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And say for you that the sun don’t shine

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Let me take you by the hand

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And lead you through the streets of London

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I’ll show you something, to make you change your mind

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Have you seen the old girl who walks the streets of London?

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Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags

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She’s no time for talking, she just keeps right on walkin

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Carrying her home in two carrier bags

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In all the night café at a quarter past eleven

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Same old man sitting there on his own

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Looking at the world over the rim of his teacup

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Each tea lasts an hour and he wanders home alone

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Have you seen the old man outside the seaman’s mission?

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Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears

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In our winter city the rain cries a little pity

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For one more forgotten hero and a world that doesn’t care