Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the story of the Liberty Of Folgate

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once round Arnold Circus, and up through Lane
Past the well of shadows, and once round again
Arm in arm, with an air
To where the people
Out of the upstairs
Because we are living like
And these will last forever

Cos sailors Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay
Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Bay
The Welsh and wagtails, mothers of midnight
The music hall carousel enspilling out into bonfire
Sending half shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall
Of Mr beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet tall

one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower 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!
What's
Dan
And the Limehouse

Purposefully walking nowhere, oh I'm happy just floating
(Have a banana)
On a Sunday afternoon, the stallholders all call and
To no-one in
Avoiding people you know, you're just basking in you're own
The world's going by, but you're the lead in your own movie

Cos in the of Norton Folgate
Walking wild and free, in second hand coat,
just to float
In this little taste of
A of everything you see

They're coming left and
Trying to flog you stuff you don't need or
And a smiling chap your hand
And drags you in his restaurant
(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)

a Chinese man trying hard to flog you moody DVDs
You know? seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no sound
And a head pops up and down
Right across your 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 wild and free, in second hand coat,
Happy just to
In little piece of liberty
You're a part of you see

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

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

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

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

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

(Ha ha ha, right)

'Cos in the Liberty of Folgate
Walking wild and
And in second hand coat
Happy to float
In little taste of liberty
Cos a part of everything you see
Yes, you're a part of you see

a little bit of this
And a little bit of
A little bit of what you like does you no
And you know

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)