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Laughing Gnome Lyrics

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Images 1966-1967

was walking down the High Street
When I heard footsteps behind me
And there was a little old man (Hello)
In scarlet and grey, shuffling away (laughter)
Well he trotted back to my house
And he sat beside the telly (Oaah..)
With his tiny hands on his tummy
Chuckling away, laughing all day (laughter)

Oh, I ought to report you to the Gnome office
(Gnome Office)
Yes
(Hahahahaha)

CHORUS
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Said the laughing Gnome

Well I gave him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine (Burp, pardon)
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne
Carried his bag and gave him a fag
(Haven't you got a light boy?)
"Here, where do you come from?"
(Gnome-man's land, hahihihi)
"Oh, really?"

In the morning when I woke up
He was sitting on the edge of my bed
With his brother whose name was Fred
He'd bought him along to sing me a song

Right, let's hear it
Here, what's that clicking noise?
(That's Fred, he's a "metrognome", haha)

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"

(Own up, I'm a gnome, ain't I right, haha)
"Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?"
(No, we're gnomads)
"Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school?
you look like a rolling gnome."
(No, not at the London School of Ecognomics)

Now they're staying up the chimney
And we're living on caviar and honey (hooray!)
Cause they're earning me lots of money
Writing comedy prose for radio shows
It's the-er (what?)
It's the Gnome service of course

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you don't catch me"
Ha ha ha, oh, dear me

(Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me"
Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
"I'm a laughing Gnome and you can't catch me")

(One more time, yeah)

Comments/Interpretations
by ladybaka on 6/24/2008 7:56am woo! love the bowie! its real music if you ask me! (btw im 15) ~LB out!
by Haley on 1/10/2009 5:55pm OH MY GOD!!! BOWIE I LOVE YOU!!!!
by Alyssia on 5/10/2009 8:58am Lovee the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Zoe on 8/28/2009 6:38am I would have to agree this sure is real music (I am also 15)... David Bowie is totally timeless! I completely love him & his music!
by Nik on 3/13/2010 1:07pm you have to be po faced not to love this song.
by Charli on 6/10/2010 12:56pm I was born in 1996 found this song two days ago and I loved it my Granma say guess how high he was when he wrote it lol
by The Truth on 6/23/2011 10:21am How much acid had he had when he wrote this?
by obsidian-stardust on 11/9/2011 1:45pm why was i born in the wrong decade (1996) i <3 BOWIE!
by Chris on 3/27/2012 5:21am I first heard this song in 1974. I thought it was the only thing he'd done. I still have it on 45 vinyl original pressing could ne worth something some day?

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