Camden Town

Album: The Lone Ranger (1995)
Charted: 14
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  • Sing up tourists, sing

    There's a great crowd of tourists and they're coming down the street
    Pleased as punch with brand new Doctor Marten's on their feet
    Past stalls with leather jackets, old bric-a-brac
    Indian sunglasses or a Chinese bobble hat

    Tramps stare in the window of the local butcher's shop
    Like a pack of wild dogs they'd run off with the lot
    In Primrose Hill, an angry man his hair standing on end
    Shouts and rants in the ear of his imaginary friend

    In Camden Town I'll meet you by the underground
    In Camden Town we'll walk there as the sun goes down
    In Camden Town
    In Camden Town you can do anything you want to

    A drunken busker hits the pavement, sending hot-dogs in the air
    Towards a broken down bus full of people going nowhere
    A string of Irish pubs as far as you can see
    Greek, Indian, Chinese or would you like a cup of tea?

    There's tapas, fracas, alcohol, tobaccos
    Bongs, bongo bingo, Portuguese maracas
    There's reggae in the jeggae, music everywhere
    Every kind of song and dance, madness in the air

    In Camden Town I'll meet you by the underground
    In Camden Town we'll walk there as the sun goes down
    In Camden Town

    The tourists sing
    Oh, they sing
    Oh, sing up
    Oh

    And what's my name in invisible game?

    The two fat Americans interrupt their stay
    They put down their bags, they were clamped and towed away
    There's Turkish cakes, designer fakes, fathers dressed as nuns
    Every kind of music here, the night has just begun

    In Camden Town I'll meet you by the underground
    In Camden Town we'll walk there as the sun goes down
    In Camden Town
    In Camden Town you can do anything you want to do

    In Camden Town
    In Camden Town
    In Camden Town
    In Camden Town Writer/s: GRAHAM MCPHERSON, MICHAEL BARSON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Ian from Isle Of Wight Having grown up around Camden , I just have to correct the favourite haunt of Madness named wrongly as the Dubliner it is in fact the Dublin Castle a pub in Parkway , Camden . They played a lot of their early gigs there . A great pub , still going I think . Though sadly I haven’t been home for a few years .
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