London Pride (alt Take)-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:London Pride] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:Noel Coward] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]London Pride (alt Take) - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:09.47]London pride has been handed down to us [00:12.61]London pride is a flower that's free [00:15.81]London pride means our own dear town to us [00:19.18]And our pride it forever will be [00:21.84] [00:22.38]Woa Liza see the caster barrows [00:25.68]Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high [00:28.24] [00:28.84]Woa Liza little London sparrows [00:31.79]Covent garden market where the casters cry [00:35.06] [00:36.22]Cockney feet mark the beat of history [00:39.63]Every street pins a memory down [00:42.16] [00:42.80]Nothing ever can quite replace [00:45.76] [00:46.68]The grace of London town [00:50.69] [00:52.81]There's a little city flower every spring unfailing [00:56.28] [00:56.97]Growing in the crevices by some London railing [01:01.40] [01:02.00]Though it has a Latin name in town and country side [01:06.53] [01:07.59]We in England call it London pride [01:11.90] [01:14.56]London pride has been handed down to us [01:17.82]London pride is a flower that's free [01:21.02]London pride means our own dear town to us [01:24.34]And our pride it forever will be [01:27.10] [01:27.63]Hey lady when the day is dawning [01:31.01]See the policeman yawning [01:32.32]On his lonely beat [01:33.94] [01:34.85]Gay lady may fair in the morning [01:37.67]Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street [01:40.69] [01:42.18]Early rain and the pavement's glistening [01:45.49]All park lane in a shimmering gown [01:48.29] [01:49.40]Nothing ever could break or harm [01:52.51] [01:53.29]The charm of London town [01:57.46] [02:00.23]In our city darkened now street [02:03.04]And square and crescent [02:05.39]We can feel our living past in our shadowed present [02:10.62] [02:11.52]Ghosts beside our starlit Thames [02:14.35]Who lived and loved and died [02:16.32] [02:17.83]Keep throughout the ages London pride [02:22.10] [02:25.09]London pride has been handed down to us [02:28.49]London pride is a flower that's free [02:31.91]London pride means our own dear town to us [02:35.27]And our pride it forever will be [02:38.18] [02:38.73]Grey city stubbornly implanted [02:42.05]Taken so for granted for a thousand years [02:45.04] [02:45.84]Stay city smoky enchanted [02:48.78]Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears [02:52.76] [02:54.59]Every blitz your resistance [02:56.97]Toughening from the Ritz [02:59.36]To the anchor and crown [03:01.16] [03:01.97]Nothing ever could override the pride of London town