Ev'rybody knows down Ladbroke Grove 

You have to leap across the street 

You can lose your life under a taxi cab 

You gotta have eyes in your feet 

You find a nice soft corner and you sit right down 

Take up your guitar and play 

Then the [bad word] and say move along 

So you move along all day. 

I'm a one man band 

Nobody cares or understands. 

Is there anybody out there who could lend a hand 

To my one man band? 

For three days now I haven't eaten at all 

My 

my 

I must be getting so thin 

Soon my cap won't be large enough 

To drop a half a crown in. 

So hey 

there 

Mister 

don't you look so sad 

Don't look so ill at ease 

I can play you any song you choose 

To cheer up the life you lead. 

I'm a one man band 

. . . 

And nobody hears the minstrel boy 

As he sings his tale of woe 

Nobody sees him disappear 

And nobody sees him go. 

So hey 

there 

Mister 

don't you look so sad 

. . . 

I'm a one man band 

. . . 

Oh 

look at the rain falling. 

Oh 

look at the rain.