Ten Until Midnight
I like a quick dance on Friday night
I like a slow dance too
You spin and whirl me around the room
There’s no space between me and you
But I’ve got to be back by ten
My Dad thinks naughty things happen after then
Don’t waste a moment dear, we’ll do it right here
If love is right then right cannot be wrong
Oh Earl you call me a princess
And Earl, I call you duke
But I absolve any claim to be the Coal Queen
Because I’ll leave with you
When this war’s over and Hitler is done
We’ll book St Giles so two become one
We’ll sign it right here in the church book, dear
A testimony that our love is real
And when our lips met there behind the flour mill wall
And you checked your watch to see if we’d done wrong
One day we’ll do the same beneath the midnight moon
When our love moves a thousand miles along
Now I’m not afraid to move away
I’ve done it once before
Left the fields of Cheshire
To move in by the colliery store
Your Bobby Healey brought my dad to dig the coal
And on a Saturday they play in goal
We pulled up our roots, dear, and placed them right here
It’s funny how some things grow
Tell me again about your farm that fills the valley
And the stream full of black-eyed trout
How to rope and steer the cows
And the snakes that I could do without
As we walk along the River Maun
To the beech tree with the lovers on
You say ‘I’ll take out my knife, dear, I’ll carve it right here
My testimony on Lover’s Tree
Give us some gum chum is how we got to talking
I was glad to find that you’d run out
You said you’d have some Thursday but I’d be out in Tuxford
The Land Army couldn’t do without
So that left Friday at the Thoresby Hall
My head grew dizzy just waiting for that Ball
I said I’ll put up my head here and promise right here
I’ll meet you there at half past eight
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