Текст песни Bowie, David - The Laughing Gnome

THE LAUGHING GNOME

I was walking- down the high street- when I heard footsteps behind me,

and there was a little old man in scarlet and grey, chuckling away.

Well he trotted- back to my house- and he sat beside the telly,

with his tiny hands on his tummy, chuckling away,  chugging all day.

[spoken]  "I ought to report you to the gnome office."  "Gnome office, ha,ha,ha!"

Ha,ha,  ha!-  Hee,hee,  hee!-  I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me.-

Ha,ha,  ha!-  Hee,hee,  hee!-  I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me.-

Said the laughing gnome.

Well I gave him- roasted toad-stools-  And a glass of dandelion wine.

Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne and carried his bag and gave him a fag.

"Ave you got a light boy?"  "'Ere! Where do you come from?"

"Gnome-man's land."  "Oh,really."

In the morning- when I woke up- he was sitting on the edge of my bed-

with his brother whose name was Fred.  He'd brought him along- to sing me a song.-

"Alright let's here it?"  "'Ere! what's that clicking sound?"

"That's Fred. He's a metrognome."   "Own up. I'm a gnome, ain' I?"

"Ain't you got a gnome to go to?"

"No! We're gnomads."    "Didn't they teach you to get your 'aircut at school? You 
look like a rolling gnome."

"Not at the London school of Ecognomics."

Now they staying- up the chimney-  and we're living on caviar and honey-

'cause they're earning me lots of money,writing comedy prose for radio shows.
"It's the er- it's the gnome service, of course."
[repeat chorus and fade]