The City Lyrics

Manfred Mann's Earth Band The City

Joseph tends the garden Malan's houseOn friday evening,
Mr. Malan smokes his pipe and hands Joseph his pay
discuss the roses.
has a parcel of nearly new clothes for him
and his Malan's children play around the
wife and child are five hundred miles
in makes a cup of tea in the
takes it out to his concrete shed at the back of the
seets on his steel bed.
It is the he will get drunk in a
will be many months until he sees his has been many months.