"Please Mr. Gravedigger" is a 1967 song by English musician David Bowie from his self-titled debut album David Bowie.
Lyrics
- There's a little churchyard just along the way
- It used to be Lambeth's finest array
- Of tombstones, epitaphs, wreaths, flowers all that jazz
- Till the war came along and someone dropped a bomb on the lot
- And in this little yard, there's a little old man
- With a little shovel in his little bitty hand
- He seems to spend all his days puffing fags and digging graves
- He hates the reverend vicar and he lives all alone in his home
- "Ah-choo, excuse me"
- Please Mr. Gravedigger, don't feel ashamed
- As you dig little holes for the dead and the maimed
- Please Mr. Gravedigger, I couldn't care
- If you found a golden locket full of some girl's hair
- And you put it in your pocket
- "God, it's pouring down"
- Her mother doesn't know about your sentimental joy
- She thinks it's down below with the rest of her toys
- And Ma wouldn't understand, so I won't tell
- So keep your golden locket all safely hid away in your pocket
- Yes, Mr. GD, you see me every day
- Standing in the same spot by a certain grave
- Mary-Ann was only 10, full of life and oh so gay
- And I was the wicked man who took her life away
- Very selfish, Oh God
- No, Mr. GD, you won't tell
- And just to make sure that you keep it to yourself
- I've started digging holes my friend
- And this one here's for you
- "Lifted our girl, she apparently doesn't know of it
- Hello misses, thought she'd be a little girl
- Bloody obscene, catch pneumonia or something in this rain"
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| David Bowie (1967) (v ● e) |
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| "Uncle Arthur" • "Sell Me a Coat" • "Rubber Band" • "Love You till Tuesday" • "There Is a Happy Land" • "We Are Hungry Men" • "When I Live My Dream" • "Little Bombardier" • "Silly Boy Blue" • "Come and Buy My Toys" • "Join the Gang" • "She's Got Medals" • "Maid of Bond Street" • "Please Mr. Gravedigger" |