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EDavid Foster lives in GDloucester with his AfamGilyE

EWorks 'til pay-time, through the dDay-time, then comes hAome fGor Etea

ASteak and kGidney, then with SDydney to his cAlub and feels free E

 They close the bar, he finds his cDar and then goes hAome Gto slEmeepE

And his wife has been with Rosie, in the parlour where it's cosy

 Watching telly, doing dishes, patching pD7ants and making wishes

 And he'll sEay "Bill should have wired" and "Not tonight dear, I'm too tired"

 And lDife drifts slowly by in the provEinces

Peter Foster goes to Gloucester for his first school day

Bites his teacher, sees a preacher and is taught to pray

Sees some birds and learns some words it's very, very rude to say

Yes, he's rather like his father was in his young day

And his father has discussions, holding forth about the Russians

"Will the Red Chinese attack us?"

"Do we need the Yanks to back us?

"And in bed she feels his shoulder, but he grunts and just turns over

And life drifts slowly by in the provinces

AmWedding ringsE come with strings but lAmove deCpends on the Flittle tEhings

 "Oh Amcould that still bEe really you?"

Am"Is there aCnything tFime can't dEo?" D A G E

David Foster's been promoted, he's a decent sort

Peter's gone to Dad's old Public School, it's good for sport

They've even got a private parking place down in Huntingdon Court

Maybe soon he'll be a magistrate, the neighbours thought

Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks

And the hang-around-the-streetnicks

And the good-for-nothing loafers

Who knock girls up on their sofas

And his wife is quite nice, really

 Though she seems a little drCeamy

FRecentlCy..Dm. C Dm

 I was Dmborn and brought Fup on the Geast side of A♯town

 And my eDmarliest dFays they passed quiAckly

 I would pDmlay after scFhool with the kiGds all aroA♯und

 In the Dmsun and the Cdust of the back sA♯treets

Oh, all through my girlhood the war had its day

And my daddy he would always be leaving

So my brother and I we would sit by her side

Telling our tales through the evening

Oh, I grew with the days and the boys came to cal

lIn the back shed I learned about kissing

But I don't think my mother has noticed at all

For we've heard that my daddy is missing

Then my school days they were over and I went off to work

And my mother grew quieter and greyer

So one day I left her and went off to live

With Billy, a saxophone player

In our broken down attic we laughed and made love

And all that we had we were sharing

Oh, we slept through the day and played into the night

God, we did as we pleased without caring

Oh but a year's passed away and he's left me one day

To play in a far away country

And the sun told my eyes "You've got no place to hide"

As I waited to be having his baby

Oh I lived in the park and the men passed and stared

Each wondering which one had lost her

And one came to ask could he buy me a meal

And he said he was called David Foster

We were married that month and I swore to myself

Somehow I'd pay back what I owed him

Cooking his supper and cleaning his boots

Yes, and kidding myself I could love him

Oh, but now my baby is grown and he's gone out to school

And he looks very much like his daddy

And David has buried himself in his work

And the time on my hands, it hangs heavy

Oh, the neighbours they smile as we pass in the streets

And they make their remarks on the weather

But the butcher and baker deliver things now

And I've stopped going out altogether

Oh, I live by my mirror and stare in my eyes

Trying to make out who I see there

But I'm looking at a woman that I can't recognize

And I don't think she knows me either