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Thread #16251 Message #151019
Posted By: Tim Salt
17-Dec-99 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Down Below (Sydney Carter)
Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN BELOW (Sydney Carter)
Alan, the version I have is the one sung by John Foreman, The Broadsheet King, as written by Sidney Carter - hope it helps.
DOWN BELOW (Sydney Carter)
When you're working in the dark, down below Underneath St James Park, down below When you're working in the dark Underneath St James park It isn't half a lark, down below
Now it isn't hard to tell,down below If it's Bow or Clerkenwell, down below Cos Bow and Clerkenwell Have a different kind of smell And you know it pretty well, down below
Come down Covent Garden way, down below in the merry month of May, down below The fragrance of the flowers Gives us many happy hours And we sing a roundelay, down below
When to Billingsgate you come, down below When to Billingsgate you come, down below When to Billingsgate you come Well the things begin to hum And the smell will knock you dumb, down below
And the objects that you find, down below Serve to exercise the mind, down below There are watches that wont wind All wrapped up in bacon rind And that isn't all you find, down below
Yes there's something in a sewer, down below Seems to have a strange alure, down below The magic of the drains Is a thing I can't explain But it's calling me again, down below Yes it's calling me again, down below