Come and Buy My Toys [Bowie]

Smiling girls and rosy boys, come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread and sugar horses painted red

Rich men's children running passed, their fathers dressed in hose
Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes
Gazing eyes and running wild, passed the stocks and over stiles
Kiss the window, merry child, but come and buy my toys

You've watched your father plough the fields with a ram's horn
Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn

Reaped it with a sharpened scythe, threashed it with a quill
The miller told your father that he'd work it with the greatest will
Now your watching's over, you must play with girls and boys
Leave the parsley on the stalls, come and buy my toys

You shall own a cambric shirt, you shall work your father's land
But now you shall play in the market square till you be a man

Smiling girls and rosy boys, come and buy my little toys
Monkeys made of gingerbread and sugar horses painted red
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David Bowie
The Deram Anthology (1966-1968)
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