Тексты песен «Richard Thompson»

High up above the crowd The great Valerio is walking The rope seems hung from cloud to cloud And time stands still while he is walking His eye is steady on the target His foot is sure upon the rope Alone and peaceful...

I like a girl in satin Who talks dirty in Latin A girl who's flirty When she quotes Krishnamurti If she likes to be goosed While reciting from Proust I'll know she's my kind of creature Among her delectables Her...

I'm just a little beggar girl and Sally is my name You can call me a skiver and I'll call you the same You can show me you're sorry if you think it's a shame That I'm only a poor little beggar girl Yes I'm only a poor...

Like a lobster I can swim And can grow another limb Where a powerless stump you saw I have grown a powerful claw Where you thought me safely drowned In the depths I swim around Thither when you too descend With my claw...

Give me simple for my pleasure Charity for my success Give me wisdom and misfortune Heart's ease for my distress When men boast or make me tremble When men mock or make me weak Give me veils to cover over Secrets that...

The time has come for action Leave your satisfaction Can't you hear St. George's tune When George's tune is calling you on? Freedom was your mother Fight for one another Leave the factory, leave the forge And dance to...

I'm Darby the tinker and my brother is Tam We go where the work is, my boys, and we work where we can With the mending and fixing, it's together we stay Intending our fortunes to try on the old changing way We come to...

Called him poor boy You took him for fun He dressed for the tinkering trade He dressed for the tinkering trade Now the poor boy is taken away No use waiting Like a ghost in a dream The world has no comfort to bring The...

Was there ever a winter so cold and so sad The river too weary to flood The storming wind cut through to my skin But she cut through to my blood I was looking for trouble to tangle my line But trouble came looking for...

I can't believe that it's so cold As gentle tides go rolling by, Along the salt sea strand The colours blend and roll as one Together in the sand. And often do the winds entwine Do send their distant call, The quiet...

What makes you men go crazy when the woman wear her dress so tight What makes you men go crazy when the woman wear her dress so tight Must be the same old thing that makes the tomcats fight all night Why do all these...

The urchins are writhing around in the mud, Like eels playing tag in a barrel The old Sally Army sound mournful and sweet As they play an old Chrissmassy...

You're going to give yourself away One of these nights Your gaze of compassion Just a little too right Your hug of encouragement A little too tight ANd then he'll know It's the little things betray You're going to give...

Lovers pair off and they fall into bed The same old lies trip off the tongue A few lonely hearts stand and prop up the room The night is young Envy the bodies asleep on the floor Dreaming some comfortable dream And...

Don't think my love is something that you can play with I'm not the one to spend the time of day with You learn to hide love, you lock it up or find it gone You think you need me, you think you read me From the beating...

You gave so many things to remember you by Like a heart full of emptiness like tears in my eye When my heartaches all have gone It will be because you gave me so much leaving alone I've got everything I need to...

Come on now mister Step right inside and see the show You'll like it mister It cures you if you're feeling low We'll take care of you Especially if you've got the dough They'll move you mister Just like a hurricane...

This old house is a-tumbling down The walls are gone but the roof is sound The landlord's deaf, he can never be found It's time to ring some changes They'll arrest you son if you just stand still They'll ask you to...

This old house is a tumbling down The walls are gone but the roof is sound The landlord's deaf, he can never be found It's time to ring some changes They'll arrest you son if you just stand still They'll ask you to...

My mind keeps on telling me that this is no good And my heart is aching, that tells me I should But only time will show the wiser I've fallen in love with a girl that's not mine If I take her it will hurt him, a very...