The Buckled Bicycle

Intro 
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Bill you were a friend of mine, a gentleman indeed 
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On your two wheel steed, did you ever cry? 
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Did you laugh at our pettiness with your pump and tyre tight 
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You left us with a bump in the night 



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Bill was hard to undertstand, a language of his own 
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A man so much alone, no family 
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He was onto something, his joy was plain to see 
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I wish he could have passed it onto me 



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Bill had no funeral, he's just a ghost today 
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His pump was his tombstone 
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They threw his buckled bicycle away 

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The little town closed ranks, the constable was wise 
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The driver drowns his sorrows when he turns out the light 
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He still hears the bump in the night 

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Drink another brandy boys and pour another beer 
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After all he was a simpleton 
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Was he really here? 

Solo 
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Plant him in the limestone with his little bag of gear 
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Keep his pump, that's ok 
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Just throw his buckled bicycle away 

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A vivid boyhood memory, I can't forget the day 
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This will be his epitaph 
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They threw his buckled bicycle away 

Solo 
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Outro 
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They threw his buckled bicycle away