[ti:Please Mr. Gravedigger] [ar:David Bowie] [al:David Bowie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.39]Artist:david bowie [00:06.21]Songs Title:please mr gravedigger [00:14.76] [00:26.10]There's a little churchyard just along the way [00:29.78]It used to be lambeth's finest array [00:32.98]Of tombstones epitaphs wreaths flowers all that jazz [00:37.06]Till the war came along and someone dropped a bomb on the lot [00:40.95] [00:43.26]And in this little yard there's a little old man [00:47.00]With a little shovel in his little bitty hand [00:50.63]He seems to spend all his days puffing fags and digging graves [00:54.45]He hates the reverend vicar and he lives all alone in his home [00:59.28] [01:00.16]Ah-choo excuse me [01:03.48]Please mr gravedigger don't feel ashamed [01:06.16]As you dig little holes for the dead and the maimed [01:10.91]Please mr gravedigger i couldn't care [01:13.84]If you found a golden locket full of some girl's hair [01:17.47]And you put it in your pocket [01:20.03]God it's pouring down [01:22.73]Her mother doesn't know about your sentimental joy [01:26.28]She thinks it's down below with the rest of her toys [01:30.03]And ma wouldn't understand so i won't tell [01:33.46]So keep your golden locket all safely hid away in your pocket [01:37.96] [01:40.32]Yes mr gd you see me every day st ah choo [01:45.56]Standing in the same spot by a certain grave [01:49.00]Mary-ann was only 10 full of life and oh so gay [01:52.75]And i was the wicked man who took her life away [01:56.20]Very selfish oh god [02:00.01]No mr gd you won't tell [02:03.29]And just to make sure that you keep it to yourself [02:06.59]I've started digging holes myself [02:08.65]And this one here's for you [02:12.90] [02:15.08]Lifted our girl she apparently doesn't know of it [02:19.57] [02:20.25]Hello misses thought she'd be a little girl [02:23.75]Bloody obscene catch pneumonia or something in this rain