I wish I had been a lady and wear ermine and pearls And be seen in all the best places, with lords and counts and earl's I'd have a personal footman to help me up and down,
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In an old English village, down a country street Next to a village church stands a cottage small and neat. Children of the village poor crossed the threshold of this door.
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I was in service as a maid, in a large house long ago, My life was nothing but full of toil and woe I had to do this job as I had nowhere else to go.
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Years ago my grandmother told me "She remembered the first car which drove through our town" Now the non stop traffic everyday really gets me down.
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I got up from my bed, another dreary day I do not have the strength to make it through the day. It's the rain and cloudy sky's that make me feel this way
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And be seen in all the best places, with lords and counts and earl's
I'd have a personal footman to help me up and down,
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He has no friends, no house, no home.
People stare at him as they hurry on by
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Next to a village church stands a cottage small and neat.
Children of the village poor crossed the threshold of this door.
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My life was nothing but full of toil and woe
I had to do this job as I had nowhere else to go.
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"She remembered the first car which drove through our town"
Now the non stop traffic everyday really gets me down.
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Locked away in the recesses of our mind,
Some we think of often, some are left behind.
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When he had said goodbye
All she wanted was to die.
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The inhabitants long ago departed,
It has been unloved and cared for
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The awesome shapes float silently by
Of fluffy white clouds against a blue sky.
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I do not have the strength to make it through the day.
It's the rain and cloudy sky's that make me feel this way
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