Are You Receiving Me?

Ralph McTell

I stopped a man the other night
Said isn't it a beautiful sky
And although he agreed
It was just to please me
I could tell that by the look in his eye
And his look got colder
Looking over his shoulder
At me as he quickened his step
So I didn't take his hand as I had planned
I threw a stone instead.

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There's a house I know
Where roses grow
I was there the other day.
And I seen this chick
Coming down the road
She was coming my way
So I picked a rose
And stuck it under her nose
She said, "What about my hay fever".
Then this man come out
And he started to shout
He wasn't very happy either.

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A little while ago
One Saturday night
I was happy and drunk as could be.
A policewoman come up
And she said that night
That the cells would sober me
I said I ain't be in bars
I got drunk on the stars
You can't pin nothing on me
Then she smiled and I said
"Oh, kiss me instead".
She said "I can't I'm on duty".

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I was in the park,
It was just before dark
And there grows a tree of mine.
And I see this girl
She was walking her dog
Around the football pitch line.
I said "You see that tree
Well it belongs to me
I'd like to give it to you".
And then she said "Cheers
Though it's been mine for years
It was a very nice thing to do".

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