Handbags & Gladrags Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Ever seen a blind man cross the road

Trying to make the other side?

Ever seen a young girl growing old

Trying to make herself a bride?

[Chorus 1]

So what becomes of you my love

When they have finally stripped you of

The handbags and the gladrags

That your grandad had to sweat so you could buy?

Baby

[Verse 2]

Once I was a young man

And all I thought I had to do was smile

You are still a young girl

And you bought everything in style

Listen

[Chorus 2]

But once you think you're in, you're out

'Cause you don't mean a single thing without

The handbags and the gladrags

That your grandad had to sweat so you could buy

Ooh

[Bridge]

Sing a song of six-pence for your sake

And take a bottle full of rye

Four and twenty blackbirds in a cake

And bake them all in a pie

[Chorus 3]

They told me you missed school today

So what I suggest you just throw them all away

The handbags and the gladrags

That your poor old granddad had to sweat to buy

Oh, woah

[Outro]

They told me you missed school today

So I suggest you just throw them all away

The handbags and the gladrags

That your poor old granddad had to sweat to buy ya, baby

Bye, bye

Album - Storyteller – The Complete Anthology: Rod Stewart 1989