Madame Geneva's - Mark Knopfler I'm a maker of ballads right pretty I write em right here in the street You can buy them all over the city Yours for a penny a sheet I'm a word pecker out of the printers Out of the dens of Gin Lane I'll write up a scene on a counter Confessions and sins in the main Boys, confession and sins in the main Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's Keepin the demons at bay There's nothin like gin for drownin them in But they'll always be back on a hangin day On a hangin day They come rattlin over the cobbles They sit on their coffins of black Some are struck dumb, some gabble Top-heavy on brandy or sack The pews are all full of fine fellows And the hawker has set up her shop As they're turnin em off at the gallows She'll be sellin right under the drop Boys, sellin right under the drop Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's Keepin the demons at bay There's nothin like gin for drownin them in But they'll always be back on a hangin day On a hangin day