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There's a room in a house in a street in a manor in a borough |
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That's part of a city that is generally referred to as London |
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It's a dark place, a mysterious place |
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And it is said that if you're born within the sound of Bow-Bells |
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You have the necessary qualifications to be christened a Londoner |
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(It's a cruel place, it's a hard place) |
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But when you think back to all the great Londoners |
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William Blake, Charles Dickens, Dick Whittington, |
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Pearly kings, barrow boys, Arthur Daley, Max Wall |
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And don't forget the Kray twins |
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But if you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day |
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You can see right down to Leicester Square (London, London) |
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Crystal Palace, Clapham Common, right down to Streatham Hill |
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North and South, I feel that I'm a Londoner still (London, London) |
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Chiswick Bridge to Newham and East Ham |
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Churchbells ring out through the land |
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You were born in London, England |
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(London, London, through the dark alley-ways and passages of London) |
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And there's a tap by a reservoir, leading to a stream, |
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That turns into a river estuary that eventually opens to the sea |
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(London, London) |
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And there's a docker by a wharf, sending cargo overseas, |
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Unloading foreign trade from a large ocean vessel |
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In the mighty metropolitan port of London |
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(London, London, through the dark alley-ways and passages of London) |
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When I think of all the Londoners still unsung |
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East-enders, West-enders, Oriental-enders |
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Fu Manchu, Sherlock Holmes, Jack Spock, Henry Cooper, |
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Thomas A'Becket, Thomas Moore, and don't forget the Kray twins |
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There's a part of me that says "Get out" |
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Then one day I'll hear somebody shout |
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"Sounds to me like you come from London Town" |
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But if you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day, |
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I'll be there (I'll be there) |
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Yes I will be there (there) |
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Through the dark alley-ways and passages of London, London |
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London, London, through the dark alley-ways and passages of London, London |
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London, London, through the dark alley-ways and passages of London, London |
