Lyrics Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres - Al Stewart
On
a
Christmas
cake
day
one
Friday
in
August
In
a
bookshop
in
Charing
Cross
Road
I
first
set
eyes
on
a
girl
and
at
once
I
did
know
She
had
eyes
like
a
poet
and
hair
like
a
rainbow
Reflecting
the
lights
that
did
glow
And
the
sadness
she
kept
in
her
eyes
Struck
my
senses
a
blow
And
so
as
by
chance
at
the
touch
of
a
glance
We
could
find
ourselves
out
in
the
road
With
no
crush
of
time
to
defeat
us
and
no
place
to
go
And
I
couldn't
say
how
but
the
coffee
bar
crowd
Had
appeared
through
the
silence
that
broke
And
she
said
"Oh
my
father's
a
judge
in
St
Albans
you
know."
"Oh
well,
then
perhaps
I
could
help
you
You
know
that
St.
Albans
is
miles
away
And
I've
got
a
room
in
Swiss
Cottage
in
which
you
could
stay
"She
laughed
"Oh
I
couldn't
do
that,
For
I've
got
to
be
up
in
the
morning
you
see.
"So
I
rang
up
to
find
out
the
first
morning
train
she
could
take
And
so
in
the
gloom
of
a
candlelit
room
With
spaghetti,
two
forks
and
a
plate
She
said
"Oh
I
really
would
like
to
be
free
and
escape."
"Oh
well
if
it's
like
thatYou
don't
have
to
go
back
And
you're
perfectly
welcome
to
stay"
"But
I've
not
finished
school
yet."
she
said
as
she
got
into
bed
And
so
as
she
slept
and
the
pure
morning
crept
Through
the
windows
to
take
her
away
I
thought
you
can't
make
people
be
what
you
want
them
to
be
I
could
see
my
self
nailed
to
a
dormitory
tale
Of
a
holiday
night's
escapade
And
just
yesterday
she
had
seemed
like
a
woman
to
me
And
so
like
a
child
with
the
sleep
in
her
eyes
Where
the
sadness
of
age
had
once
been
She
left
on
the
train
with
a
"See
you
again"
and
a
smile
And
I
couldn't
say
what
I
had
won
or
I
lost
Or
even
just
what
I
had
seen
But
when
I'm
alone
I
just
think
of
her
once
in
awhile.
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2 Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres
3 The Carmichaels
4 Scandinavian Girl
5 Pretty Golden Hair
6 Denise at 16
7 Samuel, Oh How You've Changed!
8 Cleave to Me
9 A Long Way Down from Stephanie
10 Ivich
11 Beleeka Doodle Day
12 Lover Man
13 Clifton in the Rain
14 Go Your Way
15 My Contemporaries
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