Are You Receiving Me? - Ralph McTell

I stopped a man the other night

Said, «Isn't it a beautiful sky»

And although he agreed it was just to please me

I could tell that by the look in his eye

And his look got bolder looking over his shoulder

At me as he quickened his step

So I didn’t take his hand as I had planned

I threw a stone instead

And went

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There’s a house I know where roses grow

I was there the other day

And I seen this chick coming down the road

She was coming my way

So I picked a rose and stuck it under her nose

She said, «What about my hay fever»

Then this man came out and he started to shout

He wasn’t very happy either

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A little while ago one Saturday night

I was happy and drunk as could be

A policewoman come up and she said

That night that the cells would sober me

I said, «I ain’t be in bars, I got drunk on the stars

You can’t pin nothing on me»

Then she smiled and I said «Oh, kiss me instead»

She said «I can’t, I’m on duty»

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I was in the park, it was just before dark

And there grows a tree of mine

And I see this girl she was walking her dog

Around the football pitch line

I said «You see that tree well it belongs to me

I’d like to give it to you»

And then she said, «Cheers, although it’s been mine for years

It was a very nice thing to do»

I went

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