Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Walter Martin

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

let’s have another cuppa tea

before you wander off

into the cold old Glasgow streets where

the rain don’t never stop

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

as the teapot steeps, I admire every line

and all the high back chairs go «squeak»

and the old tea kettles whine

I find myself at home my friend

in a land that isn’t mine

and oh you’re a wise old man I know

'cause when you built that Glasgow School of Art

you built it out of stone

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

you know I’d love to stay all week

and drink all these teapots dry

but the tea ain’t cheap

in this room that you designed

I wonder what they’re asking for

a little shepherd’s pie

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

now the world has turned

and your old town has changed a lot

and if you walked Buchanan Street,

I’m sure you’d find it odd

Mrs. Cranston sold the building

and they changed the whole facade