Paysage Triste

Lyrics

The girl who mounted in the omnibus The rainy day, and paid a penny fare Who answered my appreciative stare With that averted look without surprise Which only the experienced can wear   A girl with reddish hair and faint blue eyes An almost denizen of Leicester Square. We could not have had her in the box with us She would not have known how to sit, or what to wear Yet if I close my eyes I see her moving  With loosened hair about her chamber With naked feet passing across the skies She would have been most crudely ill at ease She would not have known how to sit, or what to wear Nor, when the lights went out and the horn began   Have leaned as you did, your elbow on my knees To prod impetuously with your fan