The Man Who Would Never Leave Grimsby - Strawbs

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'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

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

If you've got a little love

And you give a lot of love

It doesn't matter where you are

'Cause he had a little love

And he gives a lot of love

It doesn't matter where you are

It's up to you

You could be in Grimsby too

If you've got a little love

And he gives a lot of love

It doesn't matter where you are

'Cause he had a little love

And he gives a lot of love

It doesn't matter where you are

It's up to you

You could be in Grimsby too