853-5937 lyrics

(Difford/tilbrook)

853-5937
Angela can't make it to the phone
If you care to leave your name and number
She'll give you a ring when she is home

Every time I called her I got the message
I listened to the voice coming down the line
I couldn't speak to a tape recording
I redialed it a number of times

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853-5937
Angela can't make it to the phone
If you care to leave your name and number
Please speak clearly after the tone
She'll give you a ring when she gets home

I rang her this morning so very early
The same old message coming down the phone
I should go and see if her house is empty
Maybe she's poorly perhaps she's not home

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She's in mill hill I'm in bermondsey
It's the end of the earth on the northern line
It makes it so hard for me to see
The one that I love but can never find.

I called up a close friend who lives right by her
I got the message he was out too
I got suspicious, are they together
I've got to find out that this isn't true

(Chorus)