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The Statues (2006 Remaster) - Jake Thackray |
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Closing time on Saturday it was dark |
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Me and Uncle Samuel were lying in the park |
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Toes towards the moonlight |
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Noses in the flower beds |
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But we know that what we saw we saw |
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She was naked She was cast in bronze |
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In bronze |
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Standing in the lake amidst the |
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Corporation swans |
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He was millstone grit He was |
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Sir Robert Walpole |
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And we know that what we heard |
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We heard |
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"Lady is the water cold tonight |
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Or does the silky moonlight warm |
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Your heart to me |
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Or must I hanker for a hundred years again |
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And never-endingly gaze upon your flanks |
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Your face " |
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Well me and my Uncle Sam oh Constable well |
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We were |
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Right on her side |
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Poor darling she was shy and |
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She had her pride and nowhere to hide |
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We were there we saw the aged sire |
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Shaking with a century of petrified desire |
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Climbing from his pedestal all stiff and sooty |
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And we know that what we saw we saw |
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He began to tremble and to sway-ay-ay |
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We were drunk as penguins but |
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We saw him clear as day |
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Clumping to the water's edge |
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Sir Robert Walpole |
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And we know that what we heard we heard |
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"Lady is the water cold tonight |
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Is it the milky moonlight warms my heart to you |
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Well let the devil take the park attendant first |
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My heart may burst so I'm not waiting any longer lady " |
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Me and my Uncle Sam Inspector well |
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Then we both got to our feet |
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Poor darling she was sweet and not very old |
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And awfully cold |
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We rolled up our sleeves we got to work |
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Went for him like buffaloes |
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Like windmills goneberserk |
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He fought like a tiger |
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We've got the scars to prove it |
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And we know that what we've got we've got |
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We hung on like death we did our best |
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He was big and gritty and he fought like |
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One possessed |
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He was much too good for us was |
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Robert Walpole |
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He put us down and out and he strode on |
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Lady was the water cold last night |
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Was it the creamy dreamy moonlight |
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Warmed your heart |
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Oh little nymph we both did what we could |
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But it's so strange: you're infinitely changed today |
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Well me and my Uncle Sam your Worship |
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Well we both feel something's not right |
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Today she wears a smile her face is alight |
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And her eyes are bright |
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Ever so bright |
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Awfully bright |
