| They buried my body on Christmas
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| In the ground by the south river bank
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| Worked to my death, for my very last breath
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| I’d the Winchester bishops to thank
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| Now the church held the keys to the brothel
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| Lit the window with a burning red light
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| While I teased the funds from the pockets of johns
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| The bishop got rich in the night
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| But I didn’t fall apart
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| Through my years in the dark
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| For my lover I guarded
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| My pure, pure heart
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| And he meets me in the graveyard
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| The graveyard where they made my bed
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| Plants a white flower under cold stars
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| On the grave of the forgotten dead
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| Now the bishops snuck off to fresh pastures
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| While my grave was grown over with weeds
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| No burial plots, just some forget-me-nots
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| For the women they branded unclean
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| The wasteland was claimed by the city
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| They covered it with tenement slums
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| For where we’d been left had never been blessed
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| And they dug down and built on our bones
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| But every December
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| With frost on his fingers
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| My lover returns
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| For he still remembers
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| To meet me in the graveyard
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| The graveyard where they made my bed
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| Plants a white flower under cold stars
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| On the grave of the forgotten dead
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| The sun goes down and the last folk leave
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| It’s London Town on Christmas Eve
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| My lover still wanders bereft and bereaved
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| For he can’t find the woman that he promised he’d meet
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| The sun comes up on the cold, cold ground
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| It’s Christmas morning in London Town
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| He lays on my grave and he cradles his head
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| As he hears the church bells, he knows that I’m dead
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| So London, don’t mourn for your lovers
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| Raise a glass for us glorious dead
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| For beneath Southwark streets, we outlasted the priests
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| And the city’s raised up on our beds
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| Though we’re gone, London, do not forget
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| To meet us on Christmas
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| In the graveyard where they made our bed
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| Plant a white flower for the outcasts
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| On the graves of the forgotten dead
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| Oh to meet us on Christmas
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| In the graveyard where they made our bed
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| Plant a white flower for the outcasts
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| On the graves of the forgotten dead
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| In the Graveyard of the Outcast Dead |