Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Have you seen the old man
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In a closed- down market?
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Kicking up the paper
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With his worn out shoes
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In his eyes, you see no pride
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And held loosely at
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Telling yesterday's news
Verse 2
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So, how can you tell me
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you're lonely?
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Let me take you by the hand
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of London
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Show you something to make you
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change your mind
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Verse 3
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Have you seen the old girl
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Who walks the streets of London?
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Dirt in her hair
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And her clothes in rags
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She's no time for talking
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She just keeps right on walk ing
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Carrying her home
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Verse 4
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So, how can you tell me
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you're lonely?
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Let me take you by the hand
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I'll show you something to make you
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change your mind
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Verse 5
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In the all night café
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At a quarter past eleven
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Same old man
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Sitting there on his own
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Looking at the world
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Over the rim of his tea cup
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Each tea lasts an hour
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Verse 6
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So, how can you tell me you're
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lonely?
Don't say for you that
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Let me take you by the hand
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the streets of London
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Show you something to make you
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change your mind
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Verse 7
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Have you seen the old man
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Outside the seaman's mission?
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Memory fading with
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The medal ribbons that he wears
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In our winter city
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The rain cries a little pity
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For one more forgotten hero
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Verse 8
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So, how can you tell me
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you're lonely?
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Let me take you by the hand
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the streets of London
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