Richard Thompson - Albion Sunrise lyrics

When the sun comes up in the morning and you hear the dancing boys Mother leave your pots and pans, sister leave your toys If you have to break a camel's back or pull the crowds apart You'll find a way to get there when that old time music starts Just down the street There's a rattling sound There's a country band Playing hand me down And it's a jamboree It was in my father's father's time they new a rolling air And the Albion boys will show you how, they sang it everywhere And if you come along with us you're numbered as a friend And the faded flower of England will rise and bloom again Just down the street There's a rattling sound There's a country band Playing hand me down And it's a jamboree The dancers standing three and three are a most illustrious sight If someone saw a better one then you surely know he lied You can hear the bells a-ringing as the singer calls them on They can dance away the night and day and never step it wrong