The Laughing Gnome by David Bowie

I was walking
Down the (1)________ street
When I heard (2)__________________ behind me
And there was a (3)____________ old man (hello!)
Scarlet and Gray, chuckling away

Well he trotted
Back to my house
And he sat beside the (4)__________ (ahh)
With his tiny hands on his tummy
Chuckling away, laughing all day

I'll have to report you to the gnome office
(gnome office? ahahahah!)

Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me
Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me
Said the laughing gnome

Well I gave him roasted toadstools
And a glass of dandelion wine (*burp* pardon)
Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne
Carried his bags, and gave him a fag (have you got a light boy?)

hey where do you come from?
(gnome-ans land, hehe!)
oh really?

In the morning
When i (5)________ up
He was (6)______________ on the edge of my bed
With his (7)______________ who's (8)________ was Fred
He brought him along
To sing me a song

alright let's (9)________ it
now, what's that clicking noise?
(that's Fred, he's a metro-gnome, haha)

Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a (10)________________ gnome and you can't catch me
Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing (11)__________ and you can't catch me

(oh now, i'm a (12)__________ anyway haha)
haven't you got a home to go to?
(no, we are gnome-ads hehe)
didn't (13)________ teach you to get (14)________ hair cut at school you look like a rolling gnome
(nah, not at the London (15)____________ of eco-gnome-ics)

Now they're staying
Up me chimney
And we're living on cavier and (16)__________ (hurray!)
Cos they're earning me lots of money
Writing (17)____________ prose
For radio shows

it's the errrr
it's the gnome-service of course!

Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me
Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee (oh really)
I'm a laughing gnome and you can't (18)__________ me
(one (19)________ time!)
Hah hah hah
Hee hee hee
I'm a laughing (20)__________ and you can't catch me

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