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Benjamin Clementine – By the Ports of Europe (2017) | Track profile | Dork

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Benjamin Clementine
I Tell a Fly
By the Ports of Europe

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Benjamin Clementine

By the Ports of Europe

Release date: 29th September 2017

From I Tell a Fly

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About This Track

"By the Ports of Europe" is a track by Benjamin Clementine, from the album I Tell a Fly, released 29th September 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

By the Ports of Europe

By the Ports of Europe (x12)

By the Ports of Europe

A free lion is hungry

Buffaloes are coming

By the Ports of Europe

An eagle cries

Fish are multiplying

By the Ports of Europe

"Don't know why", said the wondering swine

Everyones a coming

Everyones a coming

Everyones a coming

By the Ports of Europe

(x3)

By the Ports of Europe

A thief whispers to princess:

"Should leave or stay, have we enough takes?"

By the Ports of Europe

"Don't know why", said the wondering swine

Porto bello (x36)

Oh,

Out of Ports of Europe (x4)

By the Ports of Europe (x4)

No, no, no I said

Out of Ports of Europe (x4)

(By the Ports of Europe) (x4)

A star twinkles not on a tree

But in front of a TV screen

One wonders when it will all end

By the Ports of Europe

For much of the day to mend

By the Ports of Europe (x8)

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Track details

From I Tell a Fly

2017

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Benjamin Clementine — Copening

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Benjamin Clementine — Farewell Sonata (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — Ave Dreamer (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — Better Sorry Than Safe (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — Paris Cor Blimey (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — Ode from Joyce (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — One Awkward Fish (from I Tell a Fly)

Benjamin Clementine — Quintessence

Benjamin Clementine — Jupiter

Benjamin Clementine — God Save the Jungle

Benjamin Clementine — Phantom of Aleppoville

Benjamin Clementine — Hallelujah Money

Benjamin Clementine — Live for Burberry

Benjamin Clementine — Quiver a Little

Benjamin Clementine — Nemesis

Benjamin Clementine — Cornerstone

Benjamin Clementine — Then I Heard a Bachelor's Cry

Benjamin Clementine — Gone

Benjamin Clementine — The Movies Never Lie (Bonus Track)

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Benjamin Clementine — London

Benjamin Clementine — Adios

Benjamin Clementine — Winston Churchill's Boy

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Adios
Condolence
Cornerstone
Edmonton
Eternity
God Save the Jungle
Gone
Hallelujah Money
Jupiter
Live for Burberry

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Credits

Writer: Benjamin Clementine
Producer: Benjamin Clementine
Vocals: Benjamin Clementine
Mixing Engineer: Stephen Sedgwick