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[00:19.14]My Saturday job pays six and six down
[00:25.16]
[00:27.96]A copy boy at the Chronicle
[00:30.61]
[00:33.19]Five cigarettes and two silver half crowns
[00:39.05]
[00:41.43]Meeting Vince at Mark Toney's in town
[00:44.68]
[00:46.75]Boy, do we get around
[00:49.11]
[00:55.26]Basil sits there on the table for subs
[01:00.87]
[01:03.43]But not a part of the Bri-nylon club
[01:07.00]
[01:08.85]Ancient blue sweater, too old for the job
[01:14.22]
[01:15.55]Bored out of his mind
[01:17.43]
[01:17.94]With the Colins and Bobs
[01:20.18]
[01:21.75]I'm a jack and a lad
[01:24.04]
[01:26.54]And I'm up for the world
[01:29.36]
[01:31.62]And I've kissed a Gateshead girl
[01:36.67]
[01:43.74]He calls for a copy boy, grumpy as hell
[01:47.76]
[01:51.07]Poets have to eat as well
[01:53.47]
[01:55.50]What he wouldn't give just to walk out today
[02:00.83]
[02:03.70]To have time to think about time
[02:06.78]
[02:08.88]And young love thrown away
[02:11.18]
[02:13.52]I'm a jack and a lad
[02:15.68]
[02:18.29]And I'm up for the world
[02:20.60]
[02:23.26]And I've kissed a Gateshead girl
[02:27.65]
[02:31.68]Starlings swarming
[02:36.35]A cloud over Grainger Street
[02:42.69]
[02:45.18]Over the black church
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[02:49.71]Over the Black Gate
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[02:54.23]And the shadowy Keep
[02:56.48]
[03:18.32]He peers through his wire rims
[03:21.12]
[03:21.72]At the fish and chip words
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[03:26.57]He's supposed to dish up and forget
[03:29.58]
[03:31.36]His drudgery now has become slightly blurred
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[03:38.82]By one of his Players untipped cigarettes
[03:42.77]
[03:44.99]Bury all joy
[03:47.04]
[03:49.39]Put the poems in sacks
[03:52.38]
[03:54.41]And bury me here with the hacks
[03:59.23]
[04:11.00]In the summer the fair
[04:13.37]Will stretch over the Moor
[04:16.83]
[04:18.49]Lovers will lie and make out in the park
[04:22.56]
[04:24.35]Basil puts on his old duffel and scarf
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[04:32.86]And goes out into the dark