***London You're A Lady - by Shane MacGowan
from the albums "Peace & Love"
London You're A Lady - as perfomed by The Pogues
Melody:
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Intro Backing Guitar: [,,,] [,,,] [,,,] [,,,]
Ah London you're a lady
Laid out before my eyes
Your golden heart is pulsing
Between your scarred up thighs
Your eyes are full of sadness
Red busses skirt your hem
Your head-dress is a ring of lights
But I would not follow them
Your architects were madmen
Your builders sane but drunk
Among your faded jewels
Shine acid house and punk
You are a scarlet lady
Your streets run red with blood
Oh my darling they have used you
And covered you with mud
It was deep down in your womb my love
I drank my quart of sin
While chinamen played cards and draughts
And knocked back mickey finns
Your piss is like a river
Its scent is beer and gin
Your hell is in the summer
And you blossom in the spring
September is your purgatory
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Christmas is your heaven
And when the stinking streets of summer
Are washed away by rain
At the dark end of a lonely street
That's where you lose your pain
'Tis then your eyes light up my love
And sparkle once again
Melody (2x) alone
(3x)