DOWN BY THE ALBION (Robert J. Purvis and William Elliott)


Home from work, get washed and shaved

The same routine from day-to-day

I'll see you when I get back from the albion


Here at 6 and drank all night

It's half past 10, I'm rather tired

I'll see you when I get back from the albion


CHORUS:

Lately I have noticed that you're really in bad shape

Leaning forward, growing older every day

I can well imagine all the action you have seen

You have seen, you have seen, you have seen


In the middle, on its own

Surrounded by the shattered stone

I'll curse the day that they pull down the albion


[scat singing (in place of solo)]


[repeat CHORUS]


Think ahead 10 years from now

And while we drink, remember all the good times that we had inside the albion

All the good times that we had inside the albion

All the good times that we had inside the albion.


Note: Albion is an ancient name for Great Britain or England (or even possibly the British Empire)

©1975 Ganga Publishing B.V.

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan