London Danny - Fairport Convention

London Danny is a real bad penny

The one man time has told me I should fear

For the girl you left behind, she said she would be mine

So why did you have to come and show your face round here

For she always said that time would make it right

But now I always hear her sighing in the night

And don’t think I don’t know, if you asked her then she’d go

Ah but please now don’t you take her from me, London Danny

Well I’ve learned to listen for your name round town

Whe people talk of your success in city life

But I could never tell if she heard them talk as well

Or rue the day she ever was a poor man’s wife

For she always said that time would make it right

But now I always hear her sighing in the night

And don’t think I don’t know, if you asked her then she’d go

Ah but please now don’t you take her from me, London Danny

Well me' hands are black while yours are clean and clever

There’s ways you know to turn her pretty head

Well its all that I can do when me' working day is through

To let her heart beat me to sleep each night in bed

For she always said that time would make it right

But now I always hear her sighing in the night

And don’t think I don’t know, if you asked her then she’d go

Ah but please now don’t you take her from me, London Danny

Well London Danny you’re a real bad penny

The one man time has told me I should fear

For the girl you left behind, she said she would be mine

So why did you have to come and show your face round here

For she always said that time would make it right

But now I always hear her sighing in the night

And don’t think I don’t know, if you asked her then she’d go

Ah but please now don’t you take her from me, London Danny