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Lyrics for Folksingers Lament by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Folksingers Lament | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 181 | | | | Lyrics: | The Folksingers Lament
(David Diamond)
Come all you floor
singers, here in this throng,
I'll sing you a ditty that's turgid and long,
With rhymes
that don't rhyme and with metre that's a little bit wrong,
And it's not what I'd sing when
I'm sober.
But I'm ready to sing, now I've had one or two,
So you swine at the back
needn't run for the loo;
You can put up with me like I've put up with you
And I'd
like you to join in the chorus.
Although my guitar I relentlessly bring,
It's never
in tune when you ask me to sing
So I'll go a capella with this little thing,
And it's
not what I'd sing when I'm sober.
There are ninety-four verses I'll stop to explain
And I
learned them this morning with infinite pain.
I'll just mumble the ones I've forgotten
again,
And I'd like you to join in the chorus.
The verses, of cuckoos and
valleys so deep
My intent from the ears of the innocent keep,
But you know what I mean if
you've not gone to sleep
And It's not what I'd sing when I'm sober.
And after the sex
comes the violence and gore
With murders and stabbings and blood on the floor
But before
all the squeamish ones run for the door
I'd like you to join in the chorus
I go
round pretending I gathered this lay
From an ancient agrarian covered with hay
On the
floor of the pub where the old fellow lay
'Cause it's not what I'd sing when I'm
sober.
But the truth is to tell that I stole the refrain,
The characters' motives I cannot
explain,
And next week I'm planning to sing it again,
And I'd like you to join in the
chorus.
I scribbled it down on the back of this sheet
Which I tore from the roll as
I sat on the seat
At the back of the pub where the folk-singers meet,
But it's not
what I'd sing when I'm sober.
I carry it round to the clubs where I go,
And I ask at the
door can I join in the show,
And this was the first one that didn't say 'no',
And I'd
like you to join in the chorus.
@drink
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