London Pride

[ti:London Pride] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra/Anne Shelton] [al:D-Day Remembered] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.23]London Pride - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:01.41] [00:08.88]London pride has been handed down to us [00:12.12]London pride is a flower that's free [00:15.41]London pride means our own dear town to us [00:18.73]And our pride it forever will be [00:21.60] [00:22.28]Woa Liza see the caster barrows [00:25.35]Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high [00:28.24] [00:28.88]Woa Liza little London sparrows [00:31.56]Covent garden market where the casters cry [00:36.11]Cockney feet mark the beat of history [00:39.56]Every street pins a memory down [00:42.26] [00:42.80]Nothing ever can quite replace [00:46.69]The grace of London town [00:51.82] [00:53.18]There's a little city flower every spring unfailing [00:57.28]Growing in the crevices by some London railing [01:02.38]Though it has a Latin name in town and country side [01:07.39] [01:07.97]We in England call it London pride [01:14.24] [01:15.16]London pride has been handed down to us [01:18.32]London pride is a flower that's free [01:21.69]London pride means our own dear town to us [01:25.11]And our pride it forever will be [01:28.31]Hey lady when the day is dawning [01:31.45]See the policeman yawning [01:33.01]On his lonely beat [01:34.98] [01:35.75]Gay lady may fair in the morning [01:38.45]Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street [01:43.06]Early rain and the pavement's glistening [01:46.55]All park lane in a shimmering gown [01:50.34]Nothing ever could break or harm [01:54.47]The charm of London town [02:00.11] [02:01.41]In our city darkened now street [02:04.29]And square and crescent [02:06.05] [02:06.56]We can feel our living past in our shadowed present [02:12.39] [02:12.90]Ghosts beside our starlit Thames [02:15.70]Who lived and loved and died [02:19.14]Keep throughout the ages London pride [02:25.78] [02:26.65]London pride has been handed down to us [02:30.11]London pride is a flower that's free [02:33.58]London pride means our own dear town to us [02:37.34]And our pride it forever will be [02:40.56]Grey city stubbornly implanted [02:43.87]Taken so for granted for a thousand years [02:47.45] [02:48.03]Stay city smoky enchanted [02:50.76]Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears [02:55.69] [02:56.52]Every blitz your resistance [02:59.10]Toughening from the Ritz [03:01.59]To the anchor and crown [03:04.04]Nothing ever could override the pride of London town