Karaoke Track: Up The Junction by Squeeze (Sunfly)

I never thought it would
happen With me and a
girl from Clapham

Out on the Windy common,
that night I ain

I said You are a lady
Perhaps, she said,
I may be

We moved into a
basement with thoughts
of our engagement

The railway arms were missing
but love had got us hooked up
and all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley.
He said I

And started me on Monday
so I had a bath on Sunday.
I worked eleven hours

She said she

I worked all
through the Winter

I put away a tenner
each week to make her better
and When the time was ready

Late evenings by the tire
with little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty

She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker

She looked just like
her mother if there
could be another

And now she

She left me When my drinking
became a proper stinging

No more nights by the telly
N o more nights,
nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there

I

And so it