David Bowie Lyrics

Album: Deram Anthology 1966-68

Come And Buy My Toys Lyrics

Smiling girls and rosy boys

 Come and buy my little toys

 Monkeys made of gingerbread

 And sugar horses painted red

 Rich men's children running past

 Their fathers dressed in hose

 Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes

 Gazing eyes and running wild

 Past the stocks and over stiles

 Kiss the window merry child

 But come and buy my toys

 You've watched your father plough the field with a ram's horn

 Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn

 Reaped it with a sharpened scyth, threshed it with a quill

 The miller told your father that he'd work it with the greatest will

 Now your watching's over you must play with girls and boys

 Leave the parsley on the stalls

 Come and buy my toys

 You shall own a cambric shirt

 You shall work your father's land 

 But now you shall play in the market square

 Till you'll be a man

 Smiling girls and rosy boys

 Come and buy my little toys

 Monkeys made of gingerbread

 And sugar horses painted red