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This is the story of the Liberty Of Norton Folgate
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Old Jack Norris, the musical shrimp and the cadging ramble.....
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A little bit of this, would you like a bit of that
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But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat
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A needle and thread the hand stitches of time
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Battling Levinsky versus Jackie Burk
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Bobbing and weaving, an invisible line
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So step for step and both light on our feet
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We'll travel many along dim silent street
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Would you like a bit of this, or a little bit of that? (Misses)
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A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that
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The perpetual steady echo of the passing beat
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A continual dark river of people
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In it's transience and in it's permanence
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But, when the streetlamp fills the gutter with gold
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So many priceless items bought and sold
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So step for step and both light on our feet
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We'll travel many along dim silent street (together)
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Once round Arnold Circus, and up through Petticoat Lane
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Past the well of shadows, and once back round again
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Arm in arm, with an abstracted air
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To where the people stare
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Out of the upstairs windows
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Because we are living like kings
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And these days will last forever
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Cos sailors from Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay
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Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Tiger Bay
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The Welsh and Irish wagtails, mothers of midnight
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The music hall carousel enspilling out into bonfire light
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Sending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall
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Of Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet tall
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Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets
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Or Banglatown. We're all dancing in the moonlight, we're all
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On borrowed ground.
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Oh, I'm just walking down to, I'm just floating down through
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Won't you come with me, to the Liberty of Norton Folgate
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But wait!
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What's that?
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Dan Leno
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And the Limehouse golem
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[Whistling duet]
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Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy just floating about
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(Have a banana)
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On a Sunday afternoon, the stallholders all call and shout
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To no-one in particular
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Avoiding people you know, you're just basking in you're own company
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The technicolour world's going by, but you're the lead in your own movie
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Cos in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
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Walking wild and free, in your second hand coat,
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Happy just to float
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In this little taste of liberty
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A part of everything you see
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They're coming left and right
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Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or want
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And a smiling chap takes your hand
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And drags you in his Uncles restaurant
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(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)
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There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody DVDs
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You know? You've seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no sound
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And a man's head pops up and down
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Right across your widescreen TV
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(Only a fiver)
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('Ow much?)
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(Alright, two for eight quid)
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(Ee-yar, ee-yar, look, I'm givin' it away)
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(Givin' it away!)
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Cos in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
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Walking wild and free, in your second hand coat,
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Happy just to float
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In this little piece of liberty
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You're a part of everything you see
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There's the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's, extortioners
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And night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, upon whom death
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Had placed a very sure hand,
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Some in shreds and patches,
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Reeling inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate vivacity
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That jars discordantly upon the ear
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And gives an aching sensation to both pair of eyeballs
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(Noisy and inordinate vivacity)
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Ohhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc]
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In the beginning was a fear of the immigrant
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In the beginning was a fear of the immigrant
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He's made his way down to the dark riverside
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In the beginning was a fear of the immigrant
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In the beginning was a fear of the immigrant
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He's made his home there down by the dark riverside
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Ohhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc]
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He made his home there down by the riverside
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They made their homes there down by the riverside
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The city sprang up from the dark river Thames
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They made their home there down by the riverside
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They made their homes there down by the riverside
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The city sprang up from the dark mud of the Thames
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I'll say it again
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(Ha ha ha, that's right)
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'Cos in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
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Walking wild and free
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And in your second hand coat
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Happy just to float
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In this little taste of liberty
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Cos you're a part of everything you see
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Yes, you're a part of everything you see
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With a little bit of this
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And a little bit of that
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A little bit of what you like does you no harm
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And you know that
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Ohhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh [etc. (repeat to end)]
AJR - OVERTURE (Official Video)
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