Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the story of the Of Norton Folgate

Old Jack Norris, the musical and the cadging ramble...

A little bit of this, would you a bit of that

But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice hat
A needle and thread the stitches of time
Battling Levinsky versus Burk
and weaving, an invisible line

So step for step and light on our feet
We'll travel many along dim silent

Would you a bit of this, or a little bit of that? (Misses)
A little bit of you like does you no harm, you know that
The steady echo of the passing beat
A dark river of people
In it's and in it's permanence
But, when the streetlamp fills the gutter with
So many priceless items and sold

So for step and both light on our feet
We'll travel many along dim street (together)

Once round Circus, and up through Petticoat Lane
the well of shadows, and once back round again
Arm in arm, an abstracted air
To where the stare
Out of the upstairs
Because we are living kings
And these days will forever

Cos sailors from Africa, China and the archipelago of
Jump ship ragged and penniless Shadwells Tiger Bay
The Welsh and Irish wagtails, mothers of
The music hall carousel enspilling out into light
Sending half crazed shadows, giants up the brick wall
Of Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet

Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Hamlets
Or Banglatown. We're all in the moonlight, we're all
On ground.

Oh, I'm just walking to, I'm just floating down through
Won't you with me, to the Liberty of Norton Folgate
But wait!
that?
Dan
And the Limehouse

Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy floating about
(Have a banana)
On a afternoon, the stallholders all call and shout
To in particular
Avoiding people you know, just basking in you're own company
The technicolour world's going by, but you're the in your own movie

Cos in the Liberty of Folgate
wild and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy to float
In this little of liberty
A part of you see

coming left and right
Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or
And a smiling chap takes hand
And you in his Uncles restaurant
(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)

There's a Chinese man trying hard to flog you DVDs
You You've seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no sound
And a man's head up and down
Right across widescreen TV
(Only a fiver)
('Ow much?)
(Alright, two for quid)
(Ee-yar, ee-yar, look, I'm it away)
(Givin' it away!)

Cos in the Liberty of Norton
Walking and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy just to
In this little of liberty
You're a part of you see

There's the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's,
And night wanderers, the feeble, the ghastly, upon death
Had placed a sure hand,
in shreds and patches,
Reeling inarticulate full of and inordinate vivacity
That jars discordantly the ear
And gives an aching sensation to pair of eyeballs
(Noisy and vivacity)

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

In the was a fear of the immigrant
In the was a fear of the immigrant
made his way down to the dark riverside

In the was a fear of the immigrant
In the beginning was a of the immigrant
He's made his home there down by the dark

Ohhhh ahhhhhh etc etc

He his home there down by the riverside
They made homes there down by the riverside
The city sprang up from the dark river

They made their there down by the riverside
They made their homes there down by the
The city sprang up from the mud of the Thames
say it again

(Ha ha ha, right)

'Cos in the Liberty of Norton
Walking wild and
And in your second coat
just to float
In this taste of liberty
Cos you're a of everything you see
Yes, a part of everything you see

With a little bit of
And a bit of that
A little bit of what you like does you no
And you that

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)