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Thread #113691 Message #2419304
Posted By: .spiderman
21-Aug-08 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Red Wine Promises (Lal Waterson)
Subject: Lyr Req: Red Wine Promises
Can anyone help with the lyrics to this wonderful Lal Waterson song? I've got two versions of it (one sung by Richard Thompson, the other by Norma Waterson) and still can't work out some of the verses - any help would be much appreciated.
What I have so far is...
Fell in the street in a drunk heap
With bright water all around me
And the cheap red wine in my drunken brain
Has left a burning flame in my belly
And I don't need nobody helping me
I don't need nobody's arms around me
If I was a black beetle upside down
I could kick all night and never turn around
I'm flat on me back in the rainbow rain
? in the morning I'll be on my feet again
I just can't get a grip on the ground
I'm upside down the right way round
I promised him ? lady
Who laughs out loud in the ?
Always to be ?
In my own waking dreams from a drunken night
And I don't feel the yawning sunshine morning
I'm forward running back again
I fell in the street in a drunk heap
With bright water all around me
And cheap red wine in my drunken brain
Has left a burning flame in my belly
And I don't need anyone helping me
I don't need no
bugger's arms around me
Oh I fell in the street in a drunk heap
With bright water all around me