Tribute to the Greatest Living Englishman

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In liberty bags and pink carnations And whistle from Savile Row I measured my life in invitations But it seems a long time ago Ah, some you win, some you lose I never had those guilty blues How they'd love to see me now A prisoner in the tower I was the greatest living Englishman Debts but very few regrets Up in the misty minarets I was the greatest living Englishman It's such a long way from barrowboy Up to position of Doctor Gas But with a good ploy and a decent spiel You spin media hype from trash Ah well we were the coming men And there was so much money then How they'd love to see me now A prisoner in the tower I was the greatest living Englishman High, enough to wonder why It would have been mad not to try To be the greatest living Englishman Such a long way... They tell me I was a social animal The way the champagne was splashed The warning light only showed on cannibal The day that my empire crashed Ah, some you win, some you lose I never had those guilty blues How they'd love to see me now A prisoner in the tower I was the greatest living Englishman High, enough to wonder why It would have been mad not to try To be the greatest living Englishman How they'd love to see me now A prisoner in the tower I was the greatest living The greatest living The greatest living Englishman