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THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER
(David McWilliams - 1967,
Marc Almond - 1992)
- A tenement, a dirty street
- Walked and worn by shoeless feet
- Inside it's long and so complete
- Watched by a shivering sun
- Old eyes in a small child's face
- Watching as the shadows race
- Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
- And daylight's brightness shuns
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
- Gazing as the swollen mass
- On concrete fields where grows no grass
- Stumbles blindly on
- Iron trees smother the air
- But withering they stand and stare
- Through eyes that neither know nor care
- Where the grass is gone
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- Pearly where's your milk white skin
- What's that stubble on your chin
- It's buried in the rot gut gin
- You played and lost not won
- You played a house that can't be beat
- Now look your head's bowed in defeat
- You walked too far along the street
- Where only rats can run
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- The race is almost run
- A tenement, a dirty street
- Remember worn and shoeless feet
- Remember how you stood to beat
- The way your life had gone
- So Pearly don't you shed more tears
- For those best forgotten years
- Those tenements are memories
- Of where you've risen from
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost won
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NORWEGIAN WOOD
(Owen - October 1965;
Paul McCartney,
Ringo Starr)
- I once had a girl, or should I say, "She once had me"?
- She showed me her room. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!
- She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere.
- So, I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.
- I sat on her rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
- We talked until two, and then she said "It's time for bed."
- She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
- I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.
- And when I awoke I was alone: This bird had flown.
- So, I lit a fire. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!
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