We Are Only Mortal

I never use words like lady or say sir to anyone Unless of course that person will point at me their gun, Death at me coldly staring, the trigger cocked to fire, To live till Nature takes me I harbour that desire. You can have your Yankee President and you can have your British Queen I pay no respect to them as too much of them I've seen They go to bed to copulate, they sleep and eat and die And they too are only mortal the same as you and I. Some see me as a cynic and others see me as a clown And so few ever greet me when I walk in the town In the street I live in hardly known few call me by my name And praise and criticism I treat them as the same. I'm well beyond the fifty and what hair I've left is gray And I am one of those blokes who has known a better day The prime years passed so quickly how quick the time did fly And it seems like only yesterday when I was a schoolboy. The river flows forever through flatlands towards the sea And centuries from now the birds wil sing on hedge and bush and tree And there will be one to take my place when I am dead and gone For we are only mortal and without us life goes on.