London Pride-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:London Pride] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:Centenary Celebration: 24 Finest Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.75]London Pride - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:01.34]Written by：Noel Coward [00:01.73] [00:08.70]London pride has been handed down to us [00:11.95]London pride is a flower that's free [00:14.51] [00:15.03]London pride means our own dear town to us [00:18.34]And our pride it for ever will be [00:20.99] [00:21.62]Woa Liza see the coster barrows [00:24.76]Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high [00:27.45] [00:28.35]Woa Liza little London sparrows [00:30.85]Covent garden market where the costers cry [00:34.14] [00:35.29]Cockney feet mark the beat of history [00:38.65]Every street pins a memory down [00:41.14] [00:41.94]Nothing ever can quite replace [00:44.87] [00:45.64]The grace of London town [00:49.67] [00:51.61]There's a little city flower every spring unfailing [00:54.97] [00:56.06]Growing in the crevices by some London railing [00:59.94] [01:00.86]Though it has a Latin name in town and country side [01:05.25] [01:06.38]We in England call it London pride [01:10.95] [01:13.39]London pride has been handed down to us [01:16.48]London pride is a flower that's free [01:19.66]London pride means our own dear town to us [01:23.04]And our pride it for ever will be [01:25.65] [01:26.49]Hey lady when the day is dawning see the policeman yawning [01:30.65]On his lonely beat [01:32.25] [01:33.29]Gay lady Mayfair in the morning [01:36.16]Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street [01:39.56] [01:40.58]Early rain and the pavement's glistening [01:43.85]All park lane in a shimmering gown [01:46.76] [01:47.77]Nothing ever could break or harm [01:50.88] [01:51.75]The charm of London town [01:55.91] [01:58.41]In our city darkened now street and square and crescent [02:02.60] [02:03.50]We can feel our living past in our shadowed present [02:08.44] [02:09.62]Ghosts beside our starlit Thames [02:11.83] [02:12.43]Who lived and loved and died [02:14.72] [02:15.87]Keep throughout the ages London pride [02:20.69] [02:23.14]London pride has been handed down to us [02:26.37]London pride is a flower that's free [02:29.79]London pride means our own dear town to us [02:33.18]And our pride it for ever will be [02:36.14] [02:36.89]Grey city stubbornly implanted [02:39.88]Taken so for granted for a thousand years [02:42.72] [02:43.79]Stay city smokily enchanted [02:46.02] [02:46.64]Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears [02:51.02] [02:52.22]Every blitz your resistance [02:54.91]Toughening from the ritz [02:57.21]To the anchor and crown [02:58.64] [02:59.58]Nothing ever could override the pride of London town