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 police come 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.