The Old Man Say

Intro

Yeah... come on

Step right up, step right up

Verse 1

Gather round, I got a tale from the cobblestone street

Where the horse-drawn carriages clip and clop to the beat

I speak in tongues they call Elizabethan prose

With a pocket watch chain and a wilting rose

Candlelit rooms where the gentlemen scheme

Pourin' sherry by the gallon, chasin' a dream

My quill's still wet from the contract I signed

A man of my word in a world unkind

Chorus

Hark now, listen close to what the old man say

Tomorrow's just a rumor, we only got today

The Thames is muddy but the silver coins shine

Pour me another, I'll rewrite the lines

Verse 2

The gramophone spinnin' a ragtime tune

Underneath a harvest moon

Felt hat tilted, boots caked in clay

I talk slow but my thoughts ricochet

They speakin' in riddles, I speak in facts

I carry my sins in a burlap sack

A pocket full of sixpence, a head full of doubt

The modern world tryna sort me out

Chorus

Hark now, listen close to what the old man say

Tomorrow's just a rumor, we only got today

The Thames is muddy but the silver coins shine

Pour me another, I'll rewrite the lines

Bridge

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done

The race ain't over till the race is won

I tip my bowler to the passersby

And speak my peace 'fore I say goodbye

Chorus

Hark now, listen close to what the old man say

Tomorrow's just a rumor, we only got today

The Thames is muddy but the silver coins shine

Pour me another, I'll rewrite the lines