Ballad Of Mary Foster (2007 - Remaster)-Al Stewart

[ti:Ballad Of Mary Foster] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:Images] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ballad Of Mary Foster (2007 - Remaster) - Al Stewart (阿尔·史蒂伍德) [00:14.16]David Foster lives in Gloucester with his family [00:18.26] [00:20.92]Works 'til pay-time [00:21.83] [00:22.39]Through the day-time then comes home for tea [00:25.57] [00:27.68]Steak and kidney [00:28.66] [00:29.43]Then with Sydney to his club and feels free [00:33.97] [00:34.75]They close the bar [00:35.91]He finds his car and then goes home to sleep [00:39.61] [00:42.18]And his wife has been with Rosie [00:43.99] [00:44.81]In the parlour where it's cosy [00:46.83] [00:47.44]Watching telly doing dishes patching pants [00:50.95]And making wishes [00:51.96] [00:52.63]And he'll say "Bill should have wired" [00:55.16]And "Not tonight dear I'm too tired" [00:57.33] [00:58.06]And life drifts slowly by in the provinces [01:01.92] [01:05.59]Peter Foster goes to Gloucester for his first school day [01:09.72] [01:12.00]Bites his teacher [01:12.95] [01:13.68]Sees a preacher and is taught to pray [01:16.82] [01:19.04]Sees some birds and learns some words it's very [01:22.42]Very rude to say [01:25.54] [01:26.26]Yes he's rather like his father was in his young day [01:31.06] [01:33.44]And his father has discussions [01:35.16] [01:36.05]Holding forth about the Russians [01:37.89] [01:38.68]"Will the Red Chinese attack us " [01:40.72] [01:41.34]"Do we need the Yanks to back us " [01:43.51] [01:44.09]And in bed she feels his shoulder [01:45.90] [01:46.63]But he grunts and just turns over [01:48.56] [01:49.38]And life drifts slowly by in the provinces [01:52.92] [01:56.33]Wedding rings come with strings [01:58.52]But love depends on the little things [02:01.42]"Oh could that still be really you " [02:04.09] [02:04.80]"Is there anything time can't do [02:06.99] [02:20.64]David Foster's been promoted [02:22.55] [02:23.23]He's a decent sort [02:25.29] [02:27.47]Peter's gone to Dad's old Public School [02:30.52]It's good for sport [02:32.24] [02:34.12]They've even got a private parking place down [02:38.10]In Huntingdon Court [02:40.69] [02:41.45]Maybe soon he'll be a magistrate [02:43.69] [02:44.54]The neighbours thought [02:46.18] [02:48.73]Yes and then he'll teach the beatniks [02:50.66] [02:51.42]And the hang around the streetnicks [02:52.99] [02:54.15]And the good for nothing loafers [02:56.23] [02:56.84]Who knock girls up on their sofas [02:58.82] [02:59.49]And his wife is quite nice really [03:01.53] [03:02.12]Though she seems a little dreamy [03:04.04] [03:05.36]Recently [03:06.62] [03:16.45]I was born and brought up on the east side of town [03:20.15] [03:21.89]And my earliest days they passed quickly [03:24.90] [03:26.19]I would play after school with the kids all around [03:29.90] [03:31.78]In the sun and the dust of the back streets [03:34.90] [03:38.21]Oh all through my girlhood the war had its day [03:41.98] [03:43.59]And my daddy he would always be leaving [03:46.39] [03:47.82]So my brother and I we would sit by her side [03:51.73] [03:54.12]Telling our tales through the evening [03:56.44] [03:59.91]Oh I grew with the days and the boys came to call [04:03.69] [04:05.31]In the back shed I learned about kissing [04:08.18] [04:09.59]But I don't think my mother she has noticed at all [04:13.06] [04:14.95]For we've heard that my daddy is missing [04:17.75] [04:21.51]Then my school days they were over [04:23.70]And I went off to work [04:25.19] [04:27.14]And my mother she grew quieter and greyer [04:29.90] [04:31.35]So one day I left her and went off to live [04:34.93] [04:36.79]With Billy a saxophone player [04:40.43] [04:43.26]In our broken down attic we laughed and made love [04:46.97] [04:48.54]And all that we had we were sharing [04:51.83] [04:52.88]Oh we slept through the day and played into the night [04:56.66] [04:58.28]God we did as we pleased without caring [05:01.27] [05:04.81]Oh but a year's passed away and he's left me one day [05:08.64] [05:10.18]To play in a far away country [05:12.98] [05:14.55]And the sun told my eyes "You've got no place to hide" [05:18.39] [05:19.90]As I waited to be having his baby [05:23.92] [05:26.63]Oh I lived in the park and the men passed and stared [05:30.21] [05:31.94]Each wondering which one had lost her [05:35.02] [05:36.16]And one came to ask could he buy me a meal [05:39.87] [05:41.49]And he said he was called David Foster [05:44.53] [05:47.98]We were married that month and I swore to myself [05:51.41] [05:53.26]Somehow I'd pay back what I owed him [05:56.71] [05:58.09]Cooking his supper and cleaning his boots [06:01.34] [06:02.90]Yes and kidding myself I could love him [06:06.21] [06:09.42]Oh but now my baby is grown [06:11.56]And he's gone out to school [06:12.94] [06:14.79]And he looks very much like his daddy [06:17.31] [06:19.23]And David has buried himself in his work [06:22.96] [06:24.48]And the time on my hands it hangs heavy [06:28.47] [06:31.04]Oh the neighbours they smile as we pass in the streets [06:34.66] [06:36.28]And they make their remarks on the weather [06:39.20] [06:40.66]But the butcher and baker deliver things now [06:44.24] [06:45.87]And I've stopped going out altogether [06:48.26] [06:52.54]Oh I live by my mirror and stare in my eyes [06:56.48] [06:57.95]Just try to make out who I see there [07:01.14] [07:02.25]But I'm looking at a woman that I can't recognize [07:05.61] [07:07.55]And I don't think that she knows me either [07:12.28] [07:14.18]There are lines on her face and her hair is a mess [07:17.90] [07:19.50]And the light in her eyes it grows colder [07:23.74]In the morning there's nothing will change ah but yes [07:27.47] [07:31.33]I will be just a little bit older