Strolling down on Mutton Street
The moon is peeping through
Old wives say, Young Man, you'd better
Watch your Ps and Qs
But life is good on Mutton Street
If you know the why and wh...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
[Verse 1]
It's not love that you're looking for
It's not love that you're hunting down
You're just on the train of the innocent, the frail
And you're gonna rob them
[Verse 2...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
High up above the crowd
The great Valerio is walking
The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud
And time stands still while he is walking
His eye is steady on the target
His foot is s...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I'm just a little beggar girl and Sally is my name
You can call me a skiver and I'll call you the same
You can show me you're sorry if you think it's a shame
That I'm only a poor l...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Now Hobnail Kelly and the Beefcake kid
Just rolled into town from the
Land of sown-up faces
Looking for a woman who can
Punch and kick and bite
Slide on down to the Egypt room
Find...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
If that was our goodbye kiss
Seems a habit too good to miss
Once more for the memory
Hit the heights too well that time
To leave it there would be a crime
Seems more like beginning...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I like a girl in satin
Who talks dirty in Latin
A girl who's flirty
When she quotes Krishnamurti
If she likes to be goosed
While reciting from Proust
I'll know she's my kind of cre...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Like a lobster I can swim
And can grow another limb
Where a powerless stump you saw
I have grown a powerful claw
Where you thought me safely drowned
In the depths I swim around
Th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
Give me simple for my pleasure
Charity for my success
Give me wisdom and misfortune
Heart's ease for my distress
When men boast or make me tremble
When men mock or make me weak
Gi...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson
I'm Darby the tinker and my brother is Tam
We go where the work is, my boys, and we work where we can
With the mending and fixing, it's together we stay
Intending our fortunes to t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Richard Thompson