London You're A Lady Lyrics

 (Shane MacGowan)
  
 Ah London you're a lady
 Laid out before my eyes
 Your heart of gold it pulses 
 Between your scarred up thighs  
 Your eyes are full of sadness
 Red busses skirt your hem 
 Your head-dress is a ring of lights
 But I would not follow them  
 Your architects were madmen  
 Your builders sane but drunk 
 Among your faded jewels
 Shine acid house and punk 
  
 You are a scarlet lady 
 Your streets run red with blood 
 Oh my darling they have used you
 And covered you with mud  
 It was deep down in your womb my love 
 I drank my quart of sin
 While chinamen played cards and draughts 
 And knocked back mickey finns
  
 Your piss is like a river 
 Its scent is beer and gin 
 Your hell is in the summer
 And you blossom in the spring
 September is your purgatory  
 Christmas is your heaven  
 And when the stinking streets of summer  
 Are washed away by rain
 At the dark end of a lonely street 
 That's where you 
'Tis then your eyes light up my love  
 And sparkle once again