Portobello Belle

Album: Communiqué (1979)
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  • Belladonna's on the high street
    Her breasts upon the offbeat
    And the stalls are just the side shows
    Victoriana's old clothes
    And yes, her jeans are tight now
    She gotta travel light now
    She got to turn up all her roots now
    She got to turn up for the boots now

    She thinks she's tough
    She ain't no English rose
    Ah, but the blind singer
    He's seen enough and he knows
    Yes, and he do a song about a long-gone Irish girl
    Ah, but I got one for you, Portobello Belle

    She sees a man upon his back there
    Escaping from a sack there
    And Belladonna lingers
    Her gloves they got no fingers
    Yeah, the blind man sing in Irish
    He get his money in a tin dish
    Just a corner serenader
    Upon a time he could have made her, made her

    She thinks she's tough
    She ain't no English rose
    Ah, but the blind singer
    He's seen enough and he knows
    Yes, and he do a song about a long-gone Irish girl
    Ah, but I got one for you, Portobello Belle

    Yes, and the barrow boys are hawking
    And the parakeet is squawking
    Upon a truck there is a rhino
    She get the crying of a wino
    And then she hear the reggae rumble
    Belladonna's in the jungle
    But she is no garden flower
    There is no distress in the tower

    Belladonna walks
    Belladonna taking a stroll
    She don't care about your window box
    Or your button hole
    Yes, and she sing a song about a long-gone Irish girl
    Ah, but I got one for you, Portobello Belle Writer/s: Mark Knopfler
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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