From the recording Family Portraits (Volume V)
A song about one of my favourite activities: perambulating through London, listening to audio-books.
Lyrics
Walking in London (listening to Books)
Walking through London, listening to books
Podcasts and novels, chasing my muse
Get a bit sweaty, endorphins released
10,000 steps and fitness achieved
Hear the Bard by Shakespeare’s Globe
In Baker Street, it’s Sherlock Holmes
The ghost of Dickens
On the Greys Inn Road
Johnny Keats on Hampstead Heath
Is reciting poetry
William Blake and I in Peckham Rye
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front and
Step by step we go
Strolling through London, airpods plugged in
Lost in the secrets of the worlds I imagine
Get your heart pumping, keep up the pace
A spring in your step and a smile on your face
Poet’s corner, Westminster
Thomas Hardy and Chaucer
T.S. Elliot (and set)
In Bloomsbury
In the Fitzroy, Charlotte Street
Bernard Shaw and Orwell meet
And you find yourself a seat between
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front and
Step by step we go
Plug yourself into
The Times Literary supplement
Top one hundred
Pound the streets of London
Walk amongst the best of them
Best foot forward
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front of the other
One foot in front and
Step by step we go
Walking in London
Listening to books
Walking in London
Listening to books