One Man Band

Leo Sayer

Everybody knows down Ladbroke Grove
You have to leap across the street
You can lose your life under a taxi cab
You gotta have eyes in your feet
You find a nice soft corner and you sit right down
Take up your guitar and play
Then the lawman comes and says move along
So you move along all day
I'm a one man band

Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend a hand
To my one man band

For three days now I haven't eaten at all

My, my, I must be getting so thin

Soon my cap won't be large enough
To drop a half-a-crown in

So hey there mister don't you look so sad

Don't look so ill at ease

When I can play you any song you like
To cheer up the life you lead

I'm a one man band

Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend a hand
To my one man band

And oh, oh, oh, look at the rain falling
Oh, oh, oh look at it rain
Oh look at it rain

Nobody sees the minstrel boy
As he sings his tale of woe
Nobody sees him coming, nobody sees him go

So hey there mister don't you look so sad

Don't look so ill at ease

When I can play you any song you like
To cheer up the life you lead

I'm a one man band

Nobody cares nor understands
Is there anybody out there wanna lend a hand
To my one man band