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Though I know the night has fallen

and the sun's sailed out to sea

I will wait here for the band to play

the trumpet voluntary

And with one foot on the seashore

and the other in the sand

I will stand here plaiting daisies

whilst you play the piano-grand

Caprice, your bugle blew away

the cobwebs from my ears

and for once I stood quite naked.

Unashamed, I wept the tears

which I tried to hide inside

myself from me, I mean from you

but the shame I found too painful

and the pain it only grew

Magdalene, my Regal Zonophone