The Old House - Marianne Faithfull

I saw a stranger

Sitting in shirtsleeves

Outside the old house, the old house

I didn’t know him

Nor him me

Passing the old house, the old house

He should be careful

When he locks up at night

The door of the old house, the old house

For my father’s ghost, my mother’s ghost

Left me the keys to the old house

They say break in, scare them away

These folks that live in the old house

Who is that stranger house

Sitting in chains

Outside the old house, the old house

I don’t know him

Nor him me

Haunting the old house, the old house

For my father’s ghost, my mother’s ghost

Left me the keys to the old house