Lyrics




Now I have a pipe full of coins
And above it hangs a picture of my brother and sister
There's beer running down the floorboards
And the stench of a couple of days
Since the death of another winter, ah
Now I don't want to be bound up like books
Don't want to be an ornament of the place
They bound up like books
Don't want to be a picture frame
Now I saw the things
Some of which they hadn't seen
Since the border started things in 1980 something
If only their place
Had a little more space and a little less waste
That'd be then something
If only their house
Like those in the books
If only their cupboards
Looked like mother-hubbard's
I don't want to be bound up like books
I don't want to be an ornament of the place
They bound up like books
Don't want to be a picture frame
No book is missed out when I'm reading
No cup and no plate are missed out
So everything is eaten
I had a face, not a place
No pictures on walls, just a house with vases
Letting fishes on walls
And a friendly old person
Who'd walk into the cave
Who'd let out a cry
Now I have a pipe full of coins
And above it hangs a picture of my brother and sister
There's beer running down the floorboards
And the stench of a couple of days since the death of another winter
Bound up like books



Writer(s): Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs Copyright: Ramshackle Inc Songs



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