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Hooray, here we are
We're home at last
Good morning, Mrs. Gray
She's in her garden
Hello there, how's the world with you?
She doesn't hear me
Never mind
There's Arthur
Hey, hey, Arthur
He's mowing the five-acre meadow
A good old friend and true
Eh?
What's the matter? He doesn't reply
Arthur, hi
Don't you know me?
Why, it's Joseph
Joseph the soldier
Joe
You remember him
You know
The mower mows on and on we go
And there's the school with the tower and the bell
Joseph, old Joe, you remember him well
Here's the mill, the inn
Now villagers everywhere
Men, women and children stand and stare
What's the matter?
What's up with the lot of you?
What's got into you all?
Are you afraid of me or what?
You know me
All of you there
Joseph
No one speaks
And then a door slams and another slams
And more and more
And the rusty hinges shriek
As every door slams shut
That's funny, he thinks
But mother will know
I'd better go
She sees him coming
She screams and runs away
So then he thinks
There's my fiancée
Married
With two children
Oh
Oh, the dirty cheat
The dirty rotten cheat
I know who you are at last
I know what's happened
I know you
I've taken my time about it too
It wasn't three days
Three years have passed
They all take me for a ghost
I'm dead among the living
Oh, the cheat
The dirty rotten
And like a fool I went and listened to him
Yes, I know I was tired and hungry
But that's no reason to go listening to the likes of him
Do you take any notice of what people you don't know tell you?
No, you say I don't know you
But what do I do?
I listen to him
I should have had my suspicions
But no
I listen to him
Like a fool I had to go and listen to him
And I gave him my fiddle
Of all the luck
And now what am I going to do?
What am I going to do now?
What am I going to do now?