Graham Greene Lyrics - Paris 1919 - John Cale

You're having tea with Graham Greene 

In a coloured costume of your choice 

And you'll be held in high esteem 

If you're seen in between 

Stiffly holding umbrellas 

Catching the fellows making the toast 

To the civil servant Carruthers 

Making the others worser than most 

You're making small talk now with the Queen 

And the elegant ladies in waiting 

You're very nervous they can all tell 

Pretty well they can tell 

So save yourselves for the hounds of hell 

They can have you all to themselves 

Since the fashion now is to give away 

All the things you love so well 

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Welcome back to Chipping and Sodbury 

You can have another chance 

It must all seem like second nature 

Chopping down the people where they stand 

According to the latest score 

Mr. Enoch Powell is falling star 

So in future please bear in mind 

Don't see clear don't see far 

When the average social director 

Mistook a passenger for the conductor 

So shocking see the old Church of E 

Looking down on you and me 

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