From across the skies so spacious
With your flirtatious eyes
To see the purple majesties
You did gladly fly
You came abroad, a pilgrim, no interest in dukes or earls
But you loved the Kinks and Queen and four lads who shook the world
Across the sea you came
I never knew your name, I called you:
Erica The Beautiful
From sea to shining sea
Forevermore be dutiful
To Erica The Beautiful
In a cafe up in Camden I took your hand in mine
For pastries plain or fruited, an undisputed sign
Two travelcards zones one through zed
Routemasters turning the town red
In paradise as long as I can gaze at you
Until the sun sets over Waterloo
In your dress of white and scarlet, under the star-lit blue
You declared your independence in those transcendent hues
To the alabaster city under the halcyon sky
You shed your grace and glamour, the amber wave’s goodbye
Back to the states you went
Across the continents
I call for...
