Karaoké Streets of London Ralph McTell

Have you seen the old man in the closed-down market kicking up the paper with his worn out shoes

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

Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me you're lonely and say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl who walks the streets of London

Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags

She's no time for talking she just keeps right on walking

Carrying her home in two carrier bags

So how can you tell me you're lonely and say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

In the all night cafe at a quarter past eleven

Same old man sitting there on his own

Looking at the world over the rim of his tea-cup

Each tea last an hour then he wanders home alone

So how can you tell me you're lonely

Don't say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old man outside the seaman's mission

Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears

In our winter city the rain cries a little pity for one more forgotten hero and a world that doesn't care

So how can you tell me you're lonely and say for you that the sun don't shine

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London

Show you something to make you change your mind