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Artist/Band: Strawbs
Lyrics for Song: Lawrence Brown
Lyrics for Album: Preserved Uncanned [1990]



Strawbs - Lawrence Brown



Lawrence Brown was a family man

Worked as hard as any man can

His wife was thin

And his daughters were fat

And all day long his daughters just sat

And watched their mother scrub the floors

And do the other family chores

They just sat around indoors



A bank clerks life is boring is as hell

It's even worse when you're not feeling well

He came home one afternoon

At four o'clock on the second of June

With a cup of tea

He went to bed

He took a book

That he never read



By five o'clock Mr Brown was dead

The Doctor came and with hardly a look

He drew the sheet and closed the book

Mrs Brown sat numb and just stared

The only one who really cared

She thought of all that she had to do

And wondered how she would see it through

And how she did it no one knew



Her daughters went out dancing that night

Staying home didn't seem right

Mrs Brown was left all alone

To sort the future out on her own

She got a job in a week or two

In an office block with a lousy view

Of another block

That was lousy too



Six months later poor Mrs Brown

Had a council flat in the middle of Town

Her youngest girl had ran off from home

Leaving her mother to cope on her own

Her elder daughter quite by chance

Had an easy life in the South of France

As a paid companion

To a maiden Aunt


Album Lyrics: Preserved Uncanned [1990]


Strawbs
"Preserved Uncanned [1990]"


1. A Good Woman's Love
2. All I Need Is You
3. Always On My Mind
4. And You Need Me
5. Coal Creek March
6. Following The Rainbow
7. Handsome Molly
8. Hard Times
9. How Everyone But Sam Was A Hypocrite
10. How I Need You
11. I'll Show You Where To Sleep
12. Jenny O'Brien
13. Just The Same In Every Way
14. Lawrence Brown
15. October To May
16. On My Way
17. Or Am I Dreaming
18. Sail Away To The Sea
19. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
20. Strawberry Picking
21. Sweetling
22. That Which Once Was Mine
23. The Blantyre Explosion
24. Wild Strawberries