Simple Tom And The Ghost Of Jenny Bailey Lyrics - And Also The Trees

The day flees the town with a drunkard's yell 

Silence from the slaughterhouse 

And the midnight bell 

Shudders down Shambles alley 

Slamming shutters 

And the market litter flies 

Newspaper acrobats, straw and rags 

Whirl up to Tom's window... 

And away 

Simple Tom looks out across the town 

Come into my shipwreck room 

Creaking beams and tilting shadows 

And the tallow-sticks burn 

High above the cobble streets 

Come into my shipwreck room 

Jenny Bailey 

We can see Tom's hand only 

Pulling horse-hair from the chair 

The candle splutters 

His pupil shrinks, his pupil grows 

You are my ghost Jenny Bailey 

Come and dance with me 

While the whole town sleeps 

Simple Tom looks out across the town 

Walk across the scaly roofs 

Look into my open window 

Oh, my rooftop girl 

Rats-tail hair and milky skin 

Glinting in the weather-vanes 

Jenny Bailey...