Madame Geneva's Lyrics - Kill To Get Crimson - Mark Knopfler

I'm a maker of ballads right pretty 

I write? em right here in the street 

You can buy them all over the city 

Yours for a penny a sheet 

I'm a word pecker out of the printers 

Out of the dens of Gin Lane 

I'll write up a scene on a counter 

Confessions and sins in the main 

Boys, confession and sins in the main 

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Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's 

Keepin' the demons at bay 

There's nothin' like gin for drownin' them in 

But they'll always be back on a hangin' day 

On a hangin' day 

They come rattlin' over the cobbles 

They sit on their coffins of black 

Some are struck dumb, some gabble 

Top-heavy on brandy or sack 

The pews are all full of fine fellows 

And the hawker has set up her shop 

As they're turnin' em off at the gallows 

She'll be sellin' right under the drop 

Boys, sellin' right under the drop 

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Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's 

Keepin' the demons at bay 

There's nothin' like gin for drownin? them in 

But they'll always be back on a hangin' day 

On a hangin' day