London

(Music by Greg Brown / poem of William Blake)

I wander through each chartered street
Near where the chartered Thames does flow
A mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe

In every cry of every man
In every infant's cry of fear
In every voice, in every ban
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls

But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse

Trivia about the song London by Greg Brown

When was the song “London” released by Greg Brown?
The song London was released in 1986, on the album “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”.

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