Portobello Road Lyrics

2021 UK and Ireland tour
Bedknobs and Broomsticks the Musical - Portobello Road Lyrics


The song is written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

EMELIUS:
Portobello Road, Portobello Road
Street where the riches of ages are stowed
Anything and everything a chap can unload
Is sold off the barrow in Portobello road
You'll find what you want in the Portobello road

EMELIUS & COMPANY:
Rare alabaster?
Genuine plaster!
A filigreed samovar owned by the czars?
A pen used by Shelley?
A new Boticelli?
The snipper that clipped old King Edward's cigars?

Waterford Crystals?
Napoleon's pistols?
Society heirlooms with genuine gems!
Rembrandts! El Greco's! Toulouse-Letrec'os!
Painted last week on the banks of the Thames!

Portobello Road, Portobello Road!
Street where the riches of ages are stowed
Anything and everything a chap can unload
Is sold off the barrow in Portobello Road
You'll meet all your chums in the Portobello Road

There's pure inspiration in every creation
No cheap imitations, not here in me store
With garments as such as was worn by a Duchess
Just once at some royal occasion of yore

In Portobello Road, Portobello Road
The fancies and fineries of ages are showed.
A lady will always feel dressed a la mode
In frillies she finds in the Portobello road

"Burke's Peerage" "The Bride Book"
"The Fishmonger's Guidebook"
A Victorian novel, "The Unwanted Son"
"The History of Potting"
"The Yearbook of Yachting"
The leather bound "Life of Attila the Hun".

Portobello Road, Portobello Road
Street where the riches of ages are stowed
Artifacts to glorify our regal abode
Are hidden in the flotsam in Portobello Road

Tokens and treasures, yesterday's pleasures
Cheap imitations of heirlooms of old
Dented and tarnished, scarred and unvarnished
In old Portobello they're bought and they're sold
You can eat like a king here in Portobello Road


Read more: Bedknobs and Broomsticks the Musical Lyrics
Portobello Road Lyrics Bedknobs and Broomsticks


Bedknobs and Broomsticks the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Nobody's Problems
A Step In The Right Direction
The Age of Not Believing
Eglantine
Portobello Road
The Beautiful Briny
Substitutiary Locomotion