The Man Who Would Never Leave Grimsby - Strawbs

Lambert

I was told about a man who would never leave Grimsby

And that may sound strange but his heart was in that town

With his friends and his family

And to make him leave would be pain indeed

Now he could have toured the world, he was highly respected

But to make him go would be ripping out his heart

And leaving him restless

So to see him play, go the Grimsby way

‘Cause he had a little love but he gives a lot of love

It doesn’t matter where he is if you’ve got a little love

And you give a lot of love, it doesn’t matter where you are

It’s up to you, you could be in Grimsby too

Got a letter from a boy from a village in Kenya

He was such a fan, so smitten by the band

They called him the Strawbs Boy and that made him proud

He would play us loud in the letter Lucky wrote

That he’d been to Nairobi which I found quite sad

Because he said he looked around but he couldn’t see me

With a faith like that, how I wish he had

Lucky had a little love and he gave a lot of love

Didn’t matter where he was

If you ever meet the man who would never leave Grimsby

Try to make him see that the home is in the heart

And you carry it with you

You may never leave and your spirit’s free