Down on Cyprus Avenue,
With a child-like visions leaping into view.
The clicking clacking of the high-heeled shoes,
Freud and Fitzroy; Madam George.
Marching with the soldier boy, behind,
He's much older now with hat on, drinking wine,
And the smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through.
In the cool night air like Shalimar.
And outside they're making all the stops,
Kids out in the street collecting bottle tops,
Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops,
Happy taking, Madam George.
Whoa that's when you fall,
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's when you fall,
Yeah that’s when you fall.
When you fall into a trance.
Sitting on a sofa playing games of chance,
With your folded arms and history books you glance,
Into the eyes of Madam George.
Then you think you've found the bag,
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In a corner playing dominoes in drag,
The one and only Madam George.
Then from outside the frosty window raps.
She jumps up and says “Lord have mercy, I think that it's the cops."
Then immediately, drops everything she gots,
Down into the street below.
Then you know you gotta go
On a train from Dublin up to Sandy Row,
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below,
In the rain, hail, sleet & snow.
Say good-bye to Madam George.
Dry your eyes for Madam George.
Wonder why for Madam George.
Whoooaaa.
Then as you leave,…? music laughing, music dancing,
Music all around the room.
And all the little boys comin' round
Walking away from it all, so cool.
Then as you’re about to leave.
She jumps up and says, “Hey love, you forgot your glove.”
And the loves, the loves, the loves, the loves,
The loves, the loves, the loves, the loves,
To love, the love, the love,
To love, the love, to the love,
Say goodbye to Madam George.
Dry your eyes for Madam George.
Wonder why for Madam George.
Dry your eyes for Madam George.
Say goodbye,
In the wind and the rain, on the back street.
In the back street, in the backstreet.
Say goodbye to Madam George,
In the back street, in the back street, in the back street.
Wheeaaa, down home, down home in the back street.
Gotta go, say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Dry your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye,
Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye,
Your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye, your eye,
Your eye, your eye, your eye.
Say goodbye to Madam George.
And the loves, the loves, the loves, the loves,
To the loves, the loves, to the loves, the loves,
To the loves, the love, to the love,
The love, to the love, to love,
Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Whooaoaaoowhoooaoooooooooeeeemmmmm
Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Wheehea to Madam George.
Dry your eyes for Madam George.
Wonder why for Madam George.
And the loves, the loves, to the loves, the loves,
To the loves, the loves, the loves, to the loves,
To the loves, the love, to the love,
Say goodbye, goodbye.
Get on the train darling.
Get on the train, the train, the train, the train, the train darling.
This is a train, this is a train darling.
This is a train.
Whooaaaaaaa
Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,
goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,
Goodbye.
Get on the train, get on the train,
Its leaving, its leaving any minute.
