Handbags & Gladrags

Ever seen a blind man cross the road

Trying to make the other side?

Ever seen a young girl growing old

Trying to make herself a bride?

So what becomes of you my love

When they have finally stripped you of

The handbags and the gladrags

That your granddad had to sweat so you could buy?

Baby

Once I was a young man

And all I thought I had to do was smile

You are still a young girl

And you bought everything in style

Listen

But once you think you're in you're out

'Cause you don't mean a single thing without

The handbags and the gladrags

That your granddad had to sweat so you could buy

Sing a song of six-pence for your sake

And take a bottle full of rye

Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake

And bake them all in a pie

They told me you missed school today

So what I suggest, you just throw them all away

The handbags and the gladrags

That your poor old granddad had to sweat to buy

They told me you missed school today

So I suggest you just throw them all away

The handbags and the gladrags

That your poor old granddad had to sweat to buy ya