Manfred Mann's Earth Band The City Lyrics

Joseph tends the garden Malan's houseOn friday evening,
Mr. Malan smokes his pipe and hands Joseph his pay
discuss the roses.
has a parcel of nearly new clothes for him
and his Malan's children play around the
wife and child are five hundred miles in makes a cup of tea in the
takes it out to his concrete shed at the back of the
seets on his steel bed.
It is the he will get drunk in a
will be many months until he sees his has been many months.