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Bedlam Boys / Beardance

from Furious Fancies by Bedlam Bards

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Bedlam Boys

For to see my Tom of Bedlam, 10,000 miles I'd travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes, to save her shoes from gravel.

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Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys, Bedlam boys are bonnie
For they all go bare and they live by the air,
and they want no drink nor money.

I went down to Satin's kitchen, for to beg me food one morning
There I got souls piping hot, all on the spit a turning.

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There I picked up a cauldron, Where boiled 10,000 harlots
Though full of flame I drank the same, to the health of all such varlets.

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My staff has murdered giants, my bag a long knife carries
For to cut mince pies from children's thighs,
with which to feed the fairies.

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Spirits white as lightning, shall on my travels guide me
The moon would quake and the stars would shake,
when' ere they espied me.

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No gypsy slut nor doxy, shall win my Mad Tom from me
I'll weep all night, the stars I'll fight, the fray will well become me.

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It's when next I have murdered, the Man-In-The-Moon to powder
His staff I'll break, his dog I'll bake, they'll howl no demon louder.

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So drink to Tom of Bedlam, he'll fill the seas in barrels
I'll drink it all, all brewed with gall, with Mad Maudlin I will travel.

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from Furious Fancies, released March 25, 2020
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Bedlam Bards Smithville, Texas

Hawke and Cedric, the Bedlam Bards, are famous for playing foot-stomping, heart-pounding music about outlaws, pirates, sailing ships, misadventures, and strong drink. Their performance style stresses passion before perfection, death before dishonor, and whiskey before breakfast. ... more

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