Ralph McTell – Streets Of London (Guitar)

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Have you seen the old man in the closed-down market

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Kicking up the paper with his worn-out shoes?

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In his eyes you see no pride, and held loosely at his side

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  Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

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So how can you tell me you're lo - ne - 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 streets of London

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Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?

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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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So how can you tell me you're lo - ne - 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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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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Each tea lasts an hour, and he wanders home alone

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So how can you tell me you're lo - ne - ly

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  Don't 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 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 winter city the rain cries a little pity

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For one more forgotten hero and a world that doesn't care

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So how can you tell me you're lo - ne - ly

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  and say for you that the sun don't shine?

C/G             G               Am                   Em
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