Boys of Bedlam lyrics

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam

Ten thousand miles I travelled

Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes

For to save her shoes from gravel.

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Still I sing "Bonny boys, bonny mad boys,

Bedlam boys are bonny",

For they all go bare and they live by the air

And they want no drink nor money.

I went down to Satan's kitchen

For to get me food one morning

And there I got souls piping hot

All on a spit a-turning.

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My staff has murdered giants

And my bag a long knife carries

To cut mince pies from children's thighs

With which to feed the fairies.

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My spirit's white as lightning

Would on my travels guide me

The moon would shake and the stars would quake

Whenever they espied me.

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And when that I have murdered

The man in the moon to a powder

His staff I'll break and his doct I'll shake

And there howl no demon louder.

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For to see mad Tom of Bedlam

Ten thousand years I travelled

Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes

For to save her shoes from gravel.

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