[Verse 1]

Take a look round lively old London

Buzzing crowds we sweat and we revel

Red-cheeked shouts and songs

In the flicker of the gaslight

Eager Blighty bursts from the cobblestones

Racing, climbing blooming fertility

Born from secret seeds

That were scattered in the nighttime


[Bridge]

London is fed upon the meat of the dead

They're one shallow inch below the town


[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Leave them underground


[Verse 2]

Them that whispered dreams that only poisoned us

Them that told us lies of their bravery

Them that preached of progress, and put us in the poorhouse

Them done horrid murder on bloody stages

Them that loudly crowed their humility

Lords and dames that sung in the chapels on a Sunday


[Bridge]

All quiet now, their mouths are stopped up by mud

They lie flung in rags and make no sound


[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Leave them underground


[Verse 3]

Those who fought for something better

Those who taught by how they lived

Loved ones taken long before their work was done


[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Leave them underground

Underground, underground

Leave them underground

Underground, underground

Leave them underground

Underground, underground

Leave them underground