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GLAD RAGS AGAIN (Jez Lowe) When this coat was a brighter blue Though it never was brand new I wore it till it crumbled at the sleeves And I've kept it all these years Though its darned with me joys and tears And its patches are my memories and my dreams We lived close to the kitchen floor And high on a never-locked door it used to hang Till at last it was tired and torn And it fell to the words of scorn my friends all sang CHO: But I swear and vow If I only knew now all the things that I knew then I'd be glad to wear glad rags again Just tell me when And I'ld be glad to wear glad rags again There's a patch for the brown-eyed lass That led me to the grass And went home to a mansion on high And her friends in their fancy clothes Looked down from a well-bred nose But I buckled me coat and I looked them in the eye There a patch for the lonely nights When the son of a poor man's plight stung me blind And my mouth was a collier's curse For the cut of me cards at bird seemed so unkind Chorus There's a patch for the friends as warm In fair weather as in storm That I left on a corner end and I saw no more There's a million names in mind That I never should've left behind And swapped for a lonely beer on a foreign shore There's a patch for the chance I took In the hope that Lady Luck would steer in view And a patch for scrape so fine As yet another stitch in time would see me through Ch. @clothes filename[ GLADRAG XX Apr98 |
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