Please Sir

Title: Please Sir

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / P. Brooks

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (4:37)
Undrugged  (5:44)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (4:36)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 1)  (4:36)
Faith, Folk and Anarchy  (4:23)
Faith, Folk and Anarchy Live  (4:55)
The Bridgerow Sessions  (6:37)
Martyn Joseph Live (DVD)
Official Bootleg Series – Vol 1 – Live Cuts 92-08  (3:50)
Evolved  (3:49)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2)  (4:09)
Across Germany 2019   (4:36)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2) (DVD)

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She was always a very pretty lady
He had always caught her eye
They were married in a mining valley
And swore they’d be together until the day that they died

Twenty years later with the coal all gone
And golden lamp in his hand
He stands at the bar with a pint in his hand and his friends
They all agree together that they don’t understand

Meanwhile little David takes his books off to school
And learns of the times gone past
And when it comes to questions he puts up his hand
There’s something that he just wants to ask

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know it doesn’t seem fair
‘Cos last night as I walked through the door
I thought I saw my father crying sat in his chair

She stood there with her arms around him and she said
She promised him a better day
But after twenty years of working underground
It’s not just your job that they take away

Sometimes he’d walk to the edge of his world
And stare at the valley below
He thought about leaving maybe running away
But knew there was nowhere to go

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know I just can’t see
Please sir when you make these decisions
Do you have a vision of what happens to me

Life goes on in a mining valley
But the young men leave for a better wage
And every day he coughs and he splutters
He knows love is the reason he stays
He knows love is the reason he stays

Meanwhile little David takes his books off to school
And learns of the times gone past
And when it comes to questions he puts up his and
There’s something that he just wants to ask

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know it doesn’t seem fair
‘Cos last night as I walked through the door
I thought I saw my daddy crying sat in his chair

Please sir can you give me and answer
Please sir you know I just can’t see
Please sir when you make these decisions
Do you have a vision of what happens to me
Do you know what happens to the likes of me?
Please take a look, take a look now
Take a look and see