Down Our Street
Composer(s): Sammy King
Performer(s): Mike Harding
and multiple other artists
Do you want to hear what the wide world says?
Down our street
Strangers there they end up dead
Down our street
Me mam and dad and the gang of fools
They've all gone out on the booze
Theres skin and whiskers flying loose
Down our street
The Salvation band came round last night
Trying to teach us wrong from right
And when the sisters began to moan
The captain sang in a snuffled tone
He was hit on the head by a big hambone
The landlord never gets his rent
When he calls, we haven't a cent
He says that he won't call again
He'll have the bailiffs round by ten
There'll be lots of houses to let by then
A copper once he hit me dad
Says me dad, There'll be a funeral, lad
They took their jackets off to fight one round
And when me dad got off the ground
A coppers nose was all they found
The tallyman does a belting trade
Everyone's bought but no-one's paid
And when he tries to get his own
Hes dead before he hits the ground
Were starting a graveyard of our own
When winter comes, it's very cold
We burn the doors 'cos we've got no coal
And when the cupboard it gets bare
They say that tomcat tastes just like hare
The Alsatians all walk round in pairs
The sambone men they never call
With an old pigs bladder we play ball
If you look out o'er our window sill
If it weren't for the gasworks and the mill
You could see all the way to Cheetham Hill
The schoolboard man came round one day
The kids they upped and ran away
Down the street he chased the lads
And Albert Iggins grabbed his tash
In the canal he made a splash
The bedbugs they're all ten feet tall
They eat the paper off the wall
They bite the women and they thump the men
And if you're not in bed by half past ten
They come downstairs and fetch you then
Down our street
There are married men and women there
Dancing mad in the midnight air
Lots of jawbones missing where
Down our street
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