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	Home -> Music -> Lyrics Album: From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock Warwick Town Maxine’s Parlour Doris Comes Today Maudy La Lune Garden Song Strangers In The Fields Brighton Beach The Room We Want You To Stay Camille Sometime Never Day Be Not So Fearful Backwoods Maze Cannons Plain The Sun Is Bored Just Another Song Morning Train Parasite Child Katie & Me Gentle Willie Tiny Down To The Bridge Sing Us One Of Your Songs, May Lily Brown Jack Laughter & Mademoiselle Sigh .: back to lyrics		“Warwick Town” .: top In a dell by Warwick Town Walks a maiden who wears a frown Little baby on her shoulder And her eyes are low cast down No one knows where she is bound People say that she’s been around Little baby on her shoulder And her eyes are low cast down In a dell by Warwick Town Walks a maiden who loved a man But that man was born to wander With his eyes so low cast down “Maxine’s Parlour” .: top To Maxine’s parlour Down Canal Lane Pouring rain Looking through the window See her by the fire In Maxine’s parlour I’m going to stay awhile Maxine she comes to me She smells of coal tar soap She takes my coat Photos on the piano And all the clocks are slow After Maxine’s parlour There’s nowhere else to go “Doris Comes Today” .: top Doris comes today And we’re going to play Purcell’s suite in A Doris plays double bass With a smile upon her face Oh it’s such a sight to see And the people in the street who are passing by Hear music that brings tears into their eyes And they’re going to buy some flowers for their wives Doris comes today And we’re going to play Chopin’s Polonaise Doris has been my teacher for three years Her every word is music to my ears Especially when she’s had one or two beers Doris on my settee With her children three But she wants one more To form a string quartet “Maudy La Lune” .: top Maudy La Lune Waitress at the Hotel Unreal My pot plant on her windowsill (windowsill) I don’t mind what she puts on my bill Maudy La Lune Takes me to the top of the hill I’m so in love it’s making me ill So in love it’s making me ill So in love it’s making me ill Maudy La Lune All I have and all I can lose (all I can lose) If she left me now I’d be through All I’d have is holes in my shoes All I’d have is holes in my shoes Maudy La Lune She is my favourite tune If you saw her you’d love her too (she’s my favourite) She is my favourite tune (she’s my favourite) She’s my favourite tune (she’s my favourite) She’s my favourite, she’s my favourite tune “Garden Song” .: top I’m planting myself in the garden Believe me Between the potatoes and parsley Believe me And I wait for the rain to anoint me And the frost to awaken my soul I’m looking for lasting relations With a greenfly, spider or maggot Believe me They’re telling me something I don’t know They’re telling me They’re telling me something I think so Telling me But I wait ‘til I know there’s a moment To get up from my chair by the sea And I’ll be able to say that I’ve been there They’re telling me something I don’t know Telling me, telling me “Strangers In The Fields” .: top I wanted to be with you Strangers in the fields talking with the cows To feed my lambs, to feed my lambs, to feed Oh, but now they’re gone Sister Suzie’s sowing in the sitting room I’ll carry on, I’ll carry on, I’ll carry on I’ll carry on, I’ll carry on, I’ll carry on Out in the farmer’s yard All the summer through I worked so hard To seed the land, to seed the land, to seed And over the southern hills Cloud-loads of strangers, their eyes are filled With silver tears, silver tears, silver tears “Brighton Beach” .: top Beacons flash to passing ships Through the tide a body slips And all the ideas locked in your head Now on Brighton beach lay dead Twinkling lights on the water’s edge A body drifts onto a ledge And all the ideas locked in your head Now on Brighton beach lay dead Ships of words go passing by Mouths agape and staring eyes And all the ideas locked in your head Now on Brighton beach lay dead Now on Brighton beach “The Room” .: top A room and all you can see are the walls so white Not the colour of the floor around you And so you’ve gone to Paris and there you teach your heiress To walk upon the waters forever A room and all you can see is the floor so black Not the colour of the ceiling above you And so you’ve gone to Tangiers and there you taste the needle That keeps you in your prison forever A room and all you can see is everything shining And so in turn it will be forever Forever, forever “We Want You To Stay” .: top These are the games that we want you to play We are your friends and we want you to stay I said O.K. I will try But as time passed by all the games grew so hard Each day a hundred more friends did arrive And I took to watching the clouds The days they grew heavy with time on their back Then I saw a man with a travelling pack Out of the house I did go I asked him the name of the town that he sought And he said the next one and the ones after that Slowly I went back inside “Camille” .: top Someone came and took Camille away today Everybody who watched had so much to say Looking at the ground she hid her face Still refusing to scream out her hate She was everybody’s private property You could read their minds “she belongs to me” They would speak of her so jealously It was oh so clear to see And they all would boast, “oh yes, I know her well” And her every thought they all could tell But all they did the day she fell Was shout the louder still “Sometime Never Day” .: top What you gonna say about the day they dragged away The young widow who screamed and kicked at your locked door? Will you say that you’re to blame? Or forget the fact she came? What you gonna say on your day? And then your favourite police inspector, he walked in And said with a red face “is all OK?” Did you give him a cigar? Or take away his car? What you gonna say on your day? You hang a chart behind the books you never read With flags for every puppet that you own But there’s one who knows your name And he’s finishing your game And what you gonna say on that day? “Be Not So Fearful” .: top Be not so nervous, be not so frail Someone watches you, you will not fail Be not so nervous, be not so frail Be not so nervous, be not so frail Be not so sorry for what you’ve done You must forget them now, it’s done And when you wake up you will find you can run Be not so sorry for what you’ve done Be not so fearful, be not so pale Someone watches you, you will not leave the rails Be not so fearful, be not so pale Be not so fearful, be not so pale Be not so sorry for what you’ve done You must forget them now, it’s done And when you wake up you will find you can run Be not so sorry for what you’ve done “Backwoods Maze” .: top You’ve got the lies of a backwood maze You say I’ll last in several ways Well I do not need that kind of pain And I won’t be opening the door again You spoke of blessing me then you turned to go I’ve seen finer comedy on a TV show All you had in the bank was a lump of coal You wouldn’t even give me that though my fire was so very low You’ve got the lies of a backwood maze You say I’ll last in several ways Well I do not need that kind of pain And I won’t be opening the door again “Cannons Plain” .: top Yonder is the way Yonder the day Clouds all o’er Cannons Plain Dawn rain Are you going home? You’ve set off down that road Yonder is the way And the day, and the day Along where trees have fell And no one is to tell The legend of Cannons Plain From whence you came Are you going home? You’ve set off down that road Yonder is the way And the day, and the day Are you going home? You’ve set off down that road Yonder is the way Cannons Plain “The Sun Is Bored” .: top “Tally ho, let’s go”, said the leader of the chase “Ole ole”, said the fantastic toreador And the sun goes down Never to rise again It was getting bored With the same old faces “Have you heard this one?” said the minister for laughs “Obscene”, said the minister for good taste And the moon is praying It wants to get away To some other place Oh, any place And the sun goes down Never to rise again “Just Another Song” .: top Just another song with the same old words Maybe someone’s gone and now nothing stirs Excuse my words if they don’t make sense Somebody has just jumped a twelve-foot fence Just another drink from the same old glass Maybe someone speaks or perhaps they laugh Excuse my words if they tend to bore Somebody has just fallen on the floor Just another fight that’s been fought in vain Just another memory come back again Excuse my words if they seem too long Somebody has just wrote another song “Morning Train” .: top You can catch the morning train or you can take a plane You can go by boat or road, from coast to coast You can travel anywhere, through wind or rain But you just might miss the train that counts the most You can travel anywhere, through wind or rain But you just might miss the train that counts the most “Parasite Child” .: top Grandma’s disgusted; the neighbours told her you’re a junkie She said it’s like I always said he’ll be a parasite child Maybe I’m amused, maybe I’m confused But I know I’m not the only one Everywhere I go, so much to know The world seems slow, it’s stopped turning It’s stopped learning And your Uncle Sid said, “He moves like the whole world is after him He’s a chewing gum kid, got a head like a sieve” Everything about me, it seems to me I just can’t be what you want me to be Ain’t no use surrounding me, hey can’t you see? I just can’t be what you want me to be Who you gonna vote for, in the next election? You got no direction, parasite child Maybe I’m amused, maybe I’m confused But I know I’m not the only one Everywhere I go, so much to know The world seems slow, it’s stopped turning It’s stopped learning “Katie & Me” .: top Katie and me For certain will be Off to the sea Early morning Sunday Early morning Sunday All our troubles blown away Early morning Sunday All our worries blown away Last year on the sand We listened to the band The weather was grand Four hundred and fifty one degrees Early morning Sunday All our troubles blown away Early morning Sunday All our worries blown away For Katie and me God willing will be Off to the sea Early morning Sunday “Gentle Willie” .: top Willie was a sailor He sailed on the sea And Willie said a sailor’s life Is the life for me But they sent him into battle For to lay down his life And Willie said a sailor’s life is not for me So Willie joined the air force He learnt how to fly And Willie said how happy He was flying in the sky But they sent him into battle For to lay down his life And Willie said the air force is no life for me Now Willie got to thinking People were plotting for his life So he bought himself a watchtower And locked himself inside But the tower looked o’er a battlefield Where men laid down their lives And Willie had to laugh but then he cried “Tiny” .: top Tiny, bless your little face Tiny, gotta keep you safe Tiny, bless your little face Tiny, God keep you safe Tiny You have the wind, you have the rain You have the fields and the windmills To turn with you and see you through Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow You have the faith, you have the hope You have the life and a skipping rope To turn with you and see you through Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow Tiny, bless your little face Tiny, gotta keep you safe Tiny, bless your little face Tiny, God keep you safe You have the wind, you have the rain You have the fields and the windmills To turn with you and see you through Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow You have the faith, you have the hope You have the life and a skipping rope To turn with you and see you through Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow “Down To The Bridge” .: top Oh let us go finally Oh let us go now Down to the bridge This evening And there we’ll be quiet And listen awhile Ah down by the bridge This evening The river runs silently The river runs deep As does the time Between us “Sing Us One Of Your Songs, May” .: top Sing us one of your songs, May The ones you know so well Sing us one of your songs, May You know we love you well Dry the tears from your eyes, May What’s it gonna be? For you know he’s gone to heaven, May Though he was only 23 They say he was a brave one, May And we all here agree There never was a finer one, May That died for his country Sing us one of your songs, May The ones you know so well Sing us one of your songs, May You know we love you well Dry the tears from your eyes, May What’s it gonna be? For you know he’s gone to heaven, May Though he was only 23 They say he was a brave one, May And we all here agree There never was a finer one, May That died for his country Sing us one of your songs, May “Lily Brown” (written by John Fay) .: top You had to know, Marjorie, that someone knew I had no faith in the things you say and what you do It’s sweet Lily Brown, from downtown I like her, I like her You only saw, Marjorie, a certain side of me But to her there’s another face that you could never see Yes, sweet Lily Brown, from downtown I like her, I like her She doesn’t want the impossible She’s quite extraordinary She never tries to argue Like you, Marjorie Sweet Lily Brown Sweet Lily Brown You only saw, Marjorie, a certain side of me But to her there’s another face you could never see Yes, sweet Lily Brown, from downtown I like her, I like her, I like her “Jack Laughter & Mademoiselle Sigh” .: top Jack Laughter said to Mademoiselle Sigh “Your face is too long, I’ll walk with you for a while” Mademoiselle Sigh said to Jack Laughter “I’ve met you before so I know that you lie” Jack Laughter said to Mademoiselle Sigh “I’d like for to dry the tears from your eyes” Mademoiselle Sigh said to Jack Laughter “Your words they are lies, just leave me to cry” Years after much time had passed by These two met again and spoke of their lives Mademoiselle Laugher said to Jack Sigh “I learned how to laugh, I see you learned how to cry I learned how to laugh, I see you’ve learned how to cry” [ All lyrics belong to Bill Fay except where otherwise noted]