Luyện nghe bài hát Overture

This is the story of the Liberty Of 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 hand of time
Levinsky versus Jackie Burk
Bobbing and weaving, an invisible

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

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

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

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

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

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 down to, I'm just floating through
Won't you come with me, to the of Norton Folgate
But wait!
What's
Dan
And the Limehouse

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

Cos in the of Norton Folgate
Walking and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy just to
In little taste of liberty
A part of you see

They're coming left and
Trying to flog you stuff you need or want
And a smiling chap takes your
And drags you in his restaurant
(ee-yar, ee-yar, ee-yar)

There's a Chinese man trying to flog you moody DVDs
You know? seen the film, it's black and white, it's got no sound
And a man's head pops up and
Right your 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
a part of everything you see

There's the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy's,
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 discordantly upon the ear
And gives an aching sensation to both of eyeballs
(Noisy and vivacity)

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

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

Ohhhh ahhhhh etc etc

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

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

(Ha ha ha, right)

in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
Walking and free
And in your second coat
Happy just to
In this little taste of
Cos you're a part of you see
Yes, you're a part of you see

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

ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)