Up The Junction

I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham

Out on a windy common, that night I ain't forgotten

When she dealt out the rations with some or other passions

I said, "You are a lady"

"Perhaps," She said

"I may be"

We moved into a basement with thoughts of our engagement

We stayed in by the telly, although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissin', the railway arms we're missin'

But love had got us hooked up and all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley, he said I'd come in handy

And started me on Monday so I had a bath on Sunday

I worked eleven hours and bought the girl some flowers

She said she'd seen a doctor and nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter, the weather brass and bitter

I put away a tenner, each week to make her better

And when the time was ready, we had to sell the telly

Late evenin's by the fire with little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50, I took her rather nifty

Down to an incubator where thirty minutes later

She gave birth to a daughter within a year a walker

She looked just like her mother if there could be another

And now she's two years older, her mother's with a soldier

She left me when my drinkin', became a proper stingin'

The devil came and took me from bar to street to bookie

No more nights by the telly, no more nights nappy smellin'

Alone here in the kitchen I feel there's somethin' missin'

I'd beg for some forgiveness but beggin's is not my business

And she won't write a letter although I always tell her

And so it's my assumption, I'm really up the junction