Al Bowlly's In Heaven Lyrics - Live From Austin, Tx - Richard Thompson

Well we were heroes then, and the girls were all pretty 

And a uniform was a lucky charm, bought you the key to the city 

We used to dance the whole night through 

While Al Bowlly sang "The Very Thought Of You" 

Now Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now 

Well I gave my youth to king and country 

But what's my country done for me but sentenced me to misery 

I traded my helmet and my parachute 

For a pair of crutches and a demob suit 

Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now 

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Hard times, hard hard times 

Hostels and missions and dosser's soup lines 

Can't close me eyes on a bench or a bed 

For the sound of some battle raging in my head 

Old friends, you lose so many 

You get run around, all over town 

The wear and the tear, oh it just drives you down 

St Mungo's with its dirty old sheets 

Beats standing all day down on Scarborough Street 

Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now 

Can't stay here, you got to foot-slog 

Once in a blue moon you might find a job 

Sleep in the rain, you sleep in the snow 

When the beds are all taken you've got nowhere to go 

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Well I can see me now, I'm back there on the dance floor 

Oh with a blonde on me arm, red-head to spare 

Spit on my shoes and shine in me hair 

And there's Al Bowlly, he's up on a stand 

Oh that was a voice and that was a band 

Al Bowlly's in heaven and I'm in limbo now