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- BALLAD OF THE ANCIENT BRIT
| ANOTHER DAY
Every she takes a morning bath She wets her hair, wraps a towel around her As she’s heading for the bedroom chair It’s just another day Slipping’ into stockings, stepping into shoes Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat It’s just another day As the office where the papers grow She takes a break, drinks another cup of coffee And she finds it hard to stay awake It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du, It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du, It’s just another day
Alone in her apartment she’d dwell Till the man of her dreams comes to break the spell Ah...stay, don’t stand around And he comes and he stays but he leaves the next day So sad, sometimes she fells so sad As she posts another letter to the sound of five People gather round her and she finds it hard to stay alive It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du, It’s just another day, du, du, du, du, du, It’s just another day
I got some money 'cause I just got paid Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to I'm in an awful way I got in town a month ago I've seen a lot of girls since then If I could meet them, I could get them But as yet I haven't met them That's how I'm in the state I'm in
I got some money 'cause I just got paid Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to I'm in an awful way Another fellow told me He had a sister who looked just fine Instead of being my deliverance She had a strange resemblance To a cat named Frankenstein
I got some money 'cause I just got paid Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to I'm in an awful way It's hard on a fellow When he don't know his way around If I don't find me a honey I gonna have to blow this town
I got some money 'cause I just got paid Oh, how I wish I had someone to talk to I'm in an awful way APEMAN I think I'm sophisticated 'cause I'm living my life Like a good homosapien But all around me everybody's multiplying And they're running round like flies man So I'm no better than the animals sitting In their cages in the zoo man 'Cause compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees I am an apeman I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilised 'Cause I'm a strict vegetarian And with the overpopulation and inflation and starvation And the crazy politicians I don't feel safe in this world no more I don't want to die in a nuclear war I wanna sail away to a distant shore And make like an apeman I'm an apeman I'm an ape ape man oh I'm an apeman I'm a king Kong man I'm a voodoo man oh I'm an apeman 'Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky Compared to the clouds as they roll by Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an apeman La la la la la la la la la la la la Come on and love me Be my apeman girl And we'll be so happy In my apeman world Repeat... AQUALUNG Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck oh Aqualung Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely Taking time the only way he knows Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end He goes down to the bog and warms his feet Feeling alone the Army’s up the road Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy You poor old sod you see it’s only me Do you still remember December’s foggy freeze When the ice that clings on to your beard was screaming agony Hey when you snatched your rattling last breaths with deep sea dive sounds And the flowers bloom like madness in the Spring Sun streaking cold an old man wandering lonely Taking time the only way he knows Neck hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end He goes down to the bog and warms his feet Feeling alone the Army’s up the road Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy You poor old sod you see it’s only me oh oh oh oh oh De de de de, de de de de de dee De de de de de de, de de de de Aqualung my friend don’t you start away uneasy You poor old sod you see it’s only me Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes hey Aqualung Drying in the cold sun watching as the frilly panties run hey Aqualung Feeling like a dead duck spitting out pieces of his broken luck hey Aqualung Woh Aqualung ARTHUR McBRIDE I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride He and I took a stroll down by the seaside A seeking good fortune and what might the tide It was just as the day was a dawning And after resting we both took a tramp We met sergeant Carter and corporal Cramp Besides a wee drummer who beat up for camp With his rowdy dow dow in the morning He said my fine fellows if you will enlist A shilling you quickly shall have in your fist Besides a crown to kick up the dust And drink the queen's health in the morning Had we been such fools as to take the advance The wee bit of morning we had to run chance You'd think it no scruple to send us to France Where we would be killed in the morning He said my young fellows if I hear but one word I instantly now will out with my sword And into your bodies as strength will afford So now my brave fellows take warning But Arthur and I we took on the odds We gave them no chance to draw out their swords Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads And paid them right smart in the morning As for the wee drummer we rifled his pouch And made a football of his rowdy dow dow And into the ocean to rock and to roll And to float on the tide in the morning As for the old rapier that hung by his side We flung it as far as we could in the tide To the devil I pitch you said Arthur McBride To temper your steel in the morning AS I ROVED OUT As I roved out on a bright May morning To view the meadows and the flowers gay Whom should I espy but my on true lover As she sat under yon willow tree I took off my hat and I did salute her I did salute her most graciously When she turned around as the tears fell from her Saying false young man you have deluded me The diamond ring I owned I gave to you A diamond ring to wear on your own right hand But the vows you made love you went and broke them And married the lassie who had the land If I married the lassie who had the land my love It’s that I'll rue till the day I die When misfortune falls sure no man can shun it I was a blind fool that I'll ne'er deny Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber The thoughts of my true love run in my mind When I turn around to embrace my darling Instead of gold sure 'tis brass I find And I wish that the queen would call home her armies From the West Indies Americay and Spain And every man to his own wedded woman In hope that you and I will meet again AS TEARS GO BY It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Smiling faces I can see but not for me I sit and watch as tears go by My riches can't buy everything I want to hear the children sing All I hear is the sound of rain falling on the ground I sit and watch as tears go by It is the evening of the day I sit and watch the children play Doing things I used to do they think are new I sit and watch as tears go by AWAY WITH RUM Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. We never eat biscuits because they have yeast And one little bite turns a man into a beast Oh can you imagine a sadder disgrace Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. We never eat fruitcake because it has rum And one little slice turns a man into a bum Oh can you imagine a sorrier sight Than a man eating fruitcake until he get’s tight Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. We’re coming we’re coming our brave little band On the right side of temperance we now take a stand We don’t use tobacco because we do think That people who use it are likely to drink Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. And we never use hair oil ‘cause that’s got bay rum Which everyone knows sends you blind deaf and dumb The addict buy’s bottles whatever the cost Then rubs it all in ‘till his senses are lost Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. The breakfast of champions will give a boy the shakes Because of the malt mixed in with the flakes Just picture the shame and disgrace of his ma When the dear little fellow acts just like his pa Away away with rum by gum, with rum by gum, with rum by gum, Away away with rum by gum, that’s the sound of the Salvation Army. BABY CAN I HOLD YOU Sorry is all that you can say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like sorry like sorry Forgive me is all that you can say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like forgive me forgive me But you can say baby Baby can I hold you tonight Baby if I told you the right words Ooh at the right time you'd be mine I love you is all that you can say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like I love you I love you But you can say baby Baby can I hold you tonight Baby if I told you the right words Ooh at the right time you'd be mine Baby can I hold you tonight Baby if I told you the right words Ooh at the right time you'd be mine You'd be mine you'd be mine BACK IN THE OLD ROUTINE I get up in the morning in the usual state I listen to the breakfast show and know that I’m late I clock in at the factory and pick up my tools I got to get a shift because the union rules We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine I come off after work get my fags and a chat And in the back I tinker with the Siamese cat The wife is watching telly in a blue negligee The good-night horror movie it really was late We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine I look forward to the weekend And Match Of The Day And we’re back in the old routine
I’d get myself a stud farm and a sexy au-pair I’d buy myself a yacht and sail away for a year With soothing girls for company and plenty of beer We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine We’re back in the old routine Back in the old routine I look forward to the weekend And Match Of The Day And we’re back in the old routine
Would patch up my world at night To a place in the past that we've been passed out of Now we're back in the fight We're back on the train hey Oh back on the chain gang A circumstance beyond our control The phoney T and the News of the World Got in the house like a pigeon from hell oh Put sand in our eyes and descended like flies Put us back on the train hey Oh back on the chain gang The powers that be That force us to live like we do Bring me to my knees When I see what they've done to you Well I'll die as I stand here today Knowing that deep in my heart They'll fall to ruin one day For making us part I found a picture of you Those were the happiest days of my life Like a break in the battle was your part In the wretched life of a lonely heart Now I'm back on the train hey Oh back on the chain gang BAD MOON RISING I see bad moon a rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightning I see bad times today Don't go round tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise
I know the end is coming soon I feel rivers overflowing I hear the voice from rage and ruin Don't go round tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise
Hope you are quite prepared to die Looks like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye Don't go round tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise
Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise
Thinking that I might have drove you too far And I'm thinking 'bout the love that you laid on my table
I told you 'bout the swans that they live in the park And I told you 'bout our kid now he's married to Mabel
Don't you notice how the reel goes round And you'd better pick yourself up from the ground Before they bring the curtain down Talking 'bout a girl that looks just like you She didn't have the time to wait in the queue She cried away her life since she fell out the cradle
Light in your head and dead on your feet Well it's another crazy day You drink the night away And forget about everything
It's got so many people but it's got no soul And it's taken you so long To find out you were wrong When you thought it held everything
You used to say that it was so easy But you're trying, you're trying now Another year and then you'll be happy Just one more year and then you'll be happy But you're crying, you're crying now Way down the street there's a light in his place He opens the door he's got that look on his face And he asks you where you've been You tell him who you've seen And you talk about anything
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands And then he'll settle down In some quiet little town And forget about everything
You know he's never gonna stop moving 'Cause he's the rolling, he's the rolling stone When you wake up it's a new morning The sun is shining it's a new morning You're going, you're going home BALLAD OF THE ANCIENT BRIT I woke up this evening, I was feeling blue, wasn’t all that surprising, I'm an ancient Briton, who takes pride in his appearance, I indulge in every new visage. I don't argue, With the leaders of the druids, ‘cause even if they knowed, that I think I have to bear a far too heavy woad. When they send me to battle down by the Roman road, they don't argue, I don't argue, you don't argue with druids. I got up and went outside, a stranger was about. It was a Roman in the gloaming’, and he gave an awful shout when I whipped off me fig leaf, and flashed myself about, he didn't argue. I ain’t got a secret weapon, it’s there for all to see, and in my turquoise birthday suit, I’m blue from head to knee. When the village maidens see it, they invite me up for tea, I don’t argue. Now Merlin was a plumber, but he had got on quite far. An honoury druid appointed by queen Boudica, He was devious and shifty, like used khasi dealers are, one didn't argue with Merlin. When he heard about the Roman, he looked shifty and he hissed "The time has come to rid out land of the imperialist" He jumped about as if possessed, I think that he was pissed, I didn't argue. He said "Now take this liquid, put it in their aqueduct. It's made from special mushrooms that I myself have plucked, Eeh when the Romans drink it, they'll be rightly screwed up" I didn't argue, I didn't think much of his poetry though. Well, I was going through the forest. when whom should I see there, but a beautiful camp follower, a camping in the air. She said “ Hello sailor, would you like to see me bare?” I didn't argue, I love animals. Well being on a mission, I should have had more sense, but the sight of her proportions made me lower my defence, for I've heard with campers, the excitement is intense, I didn't argue. As we lay down, a voice said "What’re you doing with my wife?” and I said "Just the usual", then a Roman stuck a knife halfway up me fundament, I shouted "Spare me life, and all" he didn't argue. He said “You're for Londinium, where you will have to face, trial by cross section of the Roman populace, they'll be cross enough to crucify you in a market place, they don't argue in Londinium” I was a manacled depressive, then I had an idea, I said “You must be weary soldier, have some British beer” and I pulled out Merlin's bottle, he said “Oh you are a dear” I didn't argue. He took off my handcuffs, and we sat down on the grasses, and his bird pulled out a corkscrew and three plastic army glasses, and I said “Cheers, and strange how quickly one’s life passes” he didn’t argue. He said “I'll drink to that, ‘cause I wish I was at home, or even on ‘le continent’ where all roads lead to Rome, but ‘till you lot join the market, I'm stuck in this battle zone” I didn't argue. While we were sitting there and drinking, and it wasn't very late, when suddenly the ground turned pink and began to undulate, the Roman turned to me and said "was it something that we ate?” I didn’t argue, I couldn’t argue. And suddenly I began to understood the true meaning of life and the nature of the universe, at last I understood. Well, we thank you druid Merlin for your mushroom soup with weed in, Cause man, now I know where it’s at, I'm through with tears, sweat and bleeding. Me and the Roman's getting political asylum up in Sweden. They don't argue up there. Peace brother !
She stay’s drunk all the time I got a barrel house woman She stay’s drunk all the time She’s got a heart big and loving She fuss and fight all the time She wakes me up in the morning Serves my breakfast in the bed She wakes me up in the morning Serves my breakfast in the bed She washes my face and hands And comb my doggone hair She drinks so much whisky She stays drunk all the time She drinks so much whisky She stays drunk all the time She then raise hell with me And talk talk all the time Oh yes she do now But she’s all right though She only drinks a little bit a half a case But she’s all right you know That’s my woman Yeah baby do what you want I got a barrel house woman She stay’s drunk all the time I got a barrel house woman She stay’s drunk all the time Yeah but tell you baby You sure have been good to me BEHIND CLOSED DOORS My baby makes me proud lord don't she make me proud She never makes a scene by hanging all over me in a crowd 'Cause people like to talk lord don't they love to talk But when they turn out the light I know she'll be leaving with me And when we get behind closed doors And she let's her hair hang down And she makes me glad that I'm a man Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors My baby makes me smile lord don't she make me smile She's never cross with me or too tired to say I want you She's always a lady just like a lady should be But when they turn out that light she'll still be a baby to me And when we get behind closed doors And she let's her hair hang down And she makes me glad that I'm a man Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors BELL BOTTOM BLUES Bell bottom blues you make me cry I don’t want to lose this feeling And if I could choose a place to die It would be in your arms Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay It’s all wrong but it’s all right The way that you treat me baby Once I was strong but I lost the fight You won’t find a better loser Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay Bell bottom blues don’t say goodbye Surely gonna meet again And if we do don’t you be surprised If you find me with another lover Do you want to see me crawl across the floor do you Do you wanna hear me beg you to take me back I’d gladly do because I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay I don’t want to fade away give me one more day please I don’t want to fade away give me your heart I want to stay Yüklə 1,87 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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