Fairport Convention - Mr. Lacey

Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine
Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine
Will you let me control the handles, you know it's the best thing I've ever seen

Well, Mr Lacey, where'd you learn just what to do?
Well, Mr Lacey, where'd you learn just what to do?
Can you fix me up now with a teacher, I wanna become an inventor too

Why, Mr Lacey, why d'you do the things you do?
Why, Mr Lacey, why d'you do the things you do?
It's true no one here understands now but maybe someday they'll catch up with you
Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine
Please, Mr Lacey, let me work your loving machine
Will you let me control the handles, you know it's the best thing I've ever seen

Well, Mr Lacey, where'd you learn just what to do?
Well, Mr Lacey, where'd you learn just what to do?
Can you fix me up now with a teacher, I wanna become an inventor too

Why, Mr Lacey, why d'you do the things you do?
Why, Mr Lacey, why d'you do the things you do?
It's true no one here understands now but maybe someday they'll catch up with you
FAIRPORT CONVENTION Mr Lacey / Some Sweet day (1969)

Bruce Lacey is a well known English "barmpot" who got up to all sorts of eccentric things.

Fairport Convention - Mr Lacey with Toby Lee (aged 11)

Fairport Convention Mr Lacey at The Mill, Banbury on August 9 2016 with Toby Lee (aged 11)

Shameless Quo Mr Lacey

Shameless Quo performing Mr Lacey (Hutchings) live at Fairport Conventions Cropredy music festival 2006.

Toby Lee at Fairport Convention

Guitar hero Toby Lee AKA @tobyleeguitar, aged 11 years old and "London Palladium" TV star, joins veteran folk-rock band Fairport Convention at its annual ...

Mr Lacey-Fairport Convention (with Toby Lee)-Cropredy 2016

Mr Lacey-Fairport Convention (with Toby Lee)-Cropredy 2016.

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention