| I was walking down the high street
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| When I heard footsteps behind me And there was a little old man (hello)
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| In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter)
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| Well he trotted back to my house
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| And he sat beside the telly (oaah.)
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| With his tiny hands on his tummy
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| Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)
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| Oh, I ought to report you to the gnome office
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| (gnome office)
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| Yes
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| (hahahahaha)
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you dont catch me»
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you cant catch me»
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| Said the laughing gnome
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| Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (burp, pardon)
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| Then I put him on a train to eastbourne
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| Carried his bag and gave him a fag
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| (havent you got a light boy?)
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| «here, where do you come from? |
| «(gnome-mans land, hahihihi)
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| «oh, really? |
| «In the morning when I woke up He was sitting on the edge of my bed
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| With his brother whose name was fred
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| Hed bought him along to sing me a song
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| Right, lets hear it Here, whats that clicking noise?
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| (thats fred, hes a «metrognome», haha)
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you dont catch me»
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you cant catch me»
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| (own up, Im a gnome, aint I right, haha)
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| «havent you got an ome to go to? |
| «(no, were gnomads)
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| «didnt they teach you to get your hair cut at school? |
| you look like a rolling
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| gnome.»
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| (no, not at the london school of ecognomics)
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| Now theyre staying up the chimney
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| And were living on caviar and honey (hooray!)
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| Cause theyre earning me lots of money
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| Writing comedy prose for radio shows
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| Its the-er (what?)
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| Its the gnome service of course
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you dont catch me»
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| Ha ha ha, oh, dear me
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| (ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you cant catch me»
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| Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
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| «im a laughing gnome and you cant catch me»)
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| (one more time, yeah) |