Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the of the Liberty Of Norton Folgate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cos in the Liberty of Norton
wild and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy just to
In this little of liberty
A of everything you see

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

There's a Chinese man trying hard to you moody DVDs
You know? You've seen the film, it's black and white, 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 of Norton Folgate
wild and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy to float
In this little piece of
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 a very sure hand,
in shreds and patches,
Reeling inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate
That jars upon the ear
And gives an aching sensation to both of eyeballs
(Noisy and vivacity)

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

In the beginning was a of the immigrant
In the beginning was a of the immigrant
He's made his way to the dark riverside

In the was a fear of the immigrant
In the beginning was a fear of the
made his home there down by the dark riverside

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

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

(Ha ha ha, right)

'Cos in the of Norton Folgate
Walking and free
And in your hand coat
just to float
In little taste of liberty
Cos you're a of everything you see
Yes, a part of everything you see

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

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)