Streets of London *
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Have you seen the old man in the closed down Market
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Kicking at the papers with his worn out shoes
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In his eyes you see no pride hands held loosely by his side
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Yesterday's papers telling yesterday's news
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So how can you tell me that you're lone ly
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and say for you that the sun don't shine
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Let me take you by the hand and, lead you through the streets of London
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I'll show you something to make you change your mind
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Have you seen the old girl who walks the street of London
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Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rag
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She's no time for talking she just keeps right on walking
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Carrying her home in two carrier bags ++
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And in the all night cafe at a quarter past eleven
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Same old man sitting there on his own
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Looking at the world over the rim of his tea cup
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And each tea last an hour and he wanders home alone
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Have you seen the old man, Outside the seaman's mission
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Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
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In our city winter the rain cries little pity
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For one more forgotten hero, And a world which doesn't care ++