I come from the land of the Wessex down
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From the Hampshire hills near Winchester town
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In the country where the soft South rivers flow down
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To English channel I roam, this is where I call home
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I sing for my supper and I'm pretty well fed
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My cross is silent and I make my bed
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Where I can find a crown and somewhere to lay my head
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And the travelling day is done, and all my songs have been sung
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But honey I was lonely on the road, I was all on my own
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Hanging outside at the back of a death metal show
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I saw you standing there with your hair down low
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A kink in your step that made me want to know
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If you would like to take me home
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Who'd of thought that a French kiss from a Parisian girl
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could capture an English boy
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She comes from the channels of a distant shore
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From the land of revolution and Agincourt
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From the Kings blood stain on a tricolour
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And the culture a little too high, for an English boy like me
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She doesn't know the Island I grew up upon
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The valleys and the hills that I've roamed along
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And she doesn't like my clothes and she doesn't like my songs
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But she's still my Mademoiselle and it goes to show you never can tell.
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Cos she was a quiet one
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She was a shy one
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She was the prettiest at the show
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She crept up so slowly
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She crept up behind me
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But still she pretended that she didn't know
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But all that she thinks of me, and she kissed me
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And she's yet to let me go though I'm far away
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Across of sea I'm singing for the hope that she would ever remember me
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So honey when you're lonely on the road, you're all on your own
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Hanging outside at the back of the country show
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Picture me there with hat down low
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A smile upon my face to let you know
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That I would like to take you home
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That I would like to take you home, to the hills that I know
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I would like to take you home, to the places I go
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I would like to take you home
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And that's the way that a French kiss from an English boy
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can capture a Parisian girl
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To Take You Home
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| Frank Turner |
