The Town Pants - Dark Annie lyrics

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In the streets of London

Not long ago in a time

The same gaslight to light your path

Would leave shadows to hide the crime

The drunks who were sick or asleep

The gutters and the mice

And the brave women who worked the streets

To serve old Londons vice

Oh Dark Annie what made you turn

on Hanbury street that eve

Were you cold, was business slow

Had your men all taken leave

Did you hear the footsteps behind you

Or see the shining knife

Did you know that the hand at your back

would be the one to take your life?

So I drink to your life and to your death

And I hope you put up a fight

And Annie Chapman I raise my glass

to you on this winters night

The front page of the papers said

that you were Jack's number three

And how quickly you were forgot

but your memory is not lost by me

So I drink to your life and to your death

And I hope you put up a fight

And Annie Chapman I raise my glass

to you on this winters night

Oh Dark Annie what made you turn

On Hanbury street that eve

With all the courage you must of had

Did you know you soon might bleed

In the streets of London

Not long ago in a time

The same gaslight to light your path

Would leave shadows to hide the crime

So I drink to your life and to your death

And I hope you put up a fight

And Annie Chapman I raise my glass

to you on this winters night