Madame George(Live) - Van Morrison

Madame George -Van Morrison
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume
Comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops
Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops
Happy taken Madame George
That's when you fall
Whoa that's when you fall
Yeah that's when you fall
When you fall into a trance
A sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books
You glance into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you found the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In the corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says Lord
Have mercy I think it's the cops
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
And the rain hail sleet and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
And as you leave the room is filled with music
Laughing music dancing music all around the room
And all the little boys come around
Walking away from it all
So cold and as you're about to leave
She jumps up and says hey love
You forgot your gloves
And the gloves to love to love the gloves
The gloves to love to love the gloves
The gloves to love to love the gloves
The gloves to love to love the gloves
To say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
Dry your eyes for Madame George
Say goodbye in the wind
And the rain on the back street
In the backstreet in the back street
Say goodbye to Madame George
In the backstreet in the back street
In the back street
Down home down home in the back street
Gotta go say goodbye goodbye goodbye
Dry your eye your eye your eye
Your eye your eye
Say goodbye to Madame George
And the loves to love to love the love
The loves to love to love the love
The loves to love to love the love
The loves to love to love the love
Say goodbye ooo mmm
Say goodbye goodbye goodbye
Goodbye goodbye goodbye
Goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
The love's to love the love's to love
The love's to love the love's to love
Say goodbye goodbye
Get on the train
Get on the train the train the train
The train the train
This is the train this is the train