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Intro 1
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Verse 1
David Foster lives
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in Gloucester with his fam ily
Works 'til pay-time, through through the day-time,
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then then comes home for tea
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Steak and kidney,
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then with Sydney to his club and feels free
They close the bar,
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he finds his car and then goes home to sleep
And his wife has been with Rosie,
in the parlour where it's cosy
Watching telly, doing dishes,
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patching pants and making wishes
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And he'll say, Bill should have wired
And, Not tonight dear, I'm too tired
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An d life drifts slowly
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by in the provinces
Verse 2
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Peter Foster goes to Gloucester
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for his first school day
Bites his teacher,
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sees a preacher and is taught to pray
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Sees some birds and learns some words it's very,
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very rude to say
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Yes, he's rather like his father
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was in his young day
And his father has discussions,
holding forth about the Russians
Will the Red Chinese attack us
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Do we need the Yanks to back us
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And in bed she feels his shoulder,
but he grunts and just turns over
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And life drifts slowly by in the provinces
Verse 3
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Wedding rings come with strings but
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love depends on the little things
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Oh could that still be really you
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Is there anything time can't
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do
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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David Foster's been promoted,
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he's a decent sort
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Peter's gone to Dad's old Public School,
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it's good for sport
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They've even got a private parking
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place down in Huntingdon Court
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Maybe soon he'll be a magistrate,
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the neighbours thought
Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks
And the hang-around-the-streetnicks
And the the the good-for-nothing loafers
loafers
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Who knock girls up on their sofas
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And his wife is quite nice, really
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Though she seems a little dreamy
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Re cently
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Verse 5
I was born and brought
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up on the east side of town
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And my earliest days
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they passed quickly
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I would play af ter school with
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the kids all around
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In the sun and the dust
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of the back streets
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Oh, all through my girl
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hood the war had its day
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And my daddy he would al
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ways be leaving
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So my brother and I we
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would sit by her side
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Telling our tales through
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the evening
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Oh, I grew with the days and
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the boys came to call
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In the back shed I learned about kissing
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But I don't think my
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mother has no ticed at all
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For we've heard that my
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daddy is missing
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Then my school days they were
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over and I went off to work
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And my mother grew quieter and greyer
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So one day I left her and went off to live
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With Billy,
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a saxophone player
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In our broken down attic
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we laughed and made love
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And all that we had we were sharing
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Oh, we slept through the day
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and played into the night
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God, we did as we
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pleased without caring
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Oh but a year's passed away
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and he's left me one day
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To play in a far away country
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And the sun told my eyes,
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You've got no place to hide
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As I waited to be having his baby
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Oh I lived in the park and
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the men passed and stared
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Each wondering which one had lost her
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And one came to ask could
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he buy me a meal
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And he said he was called David Foster
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We were married that month
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and I swore to myself
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Somehow I'd pay back
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what I owed him
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Cooking his sup per and
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cleaning his boots
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Yes, and kid ding myself
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I could love him
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Oh, but now my baby is grown
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and he's gone out to school
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And he looks very much like his daddy
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And Dav id has buried
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him self in his work
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And the time on my hands,
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it hangs heavy
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Oh, the neighbours they smile
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as we pass in the streets
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And they make their re
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marks on the weather
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But the butcher and baker
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deliver things now
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And I've stopped going
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out altogeth er
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Oh, I
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live by my mirror and
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stare in my eyes
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Trying to make out who I see there
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But I'm looking at a woman
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that I can't recognize
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And I don't think she
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knows me either
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There are lines on her face
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and her hair is a mess
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And the light in her eyes it grows colder
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In the morning there's nothing will change,
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ah but yes
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I will be just a little bit older
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