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Tom of Bedlam's Song

from Spear of Flame, Horse of Air by Stone Breath

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lyrics

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I've traveled.
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
To keep her shoes from gravel.

I went down to Satan's kitchen
To break my fast one morning,
And there I got souls piping hot
All on the spit a-turning.

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

From hag or hungry goblin
That into rags would rend ye,
All the sprites stand by the naked man -
In the Book of Moons defend ye.

I know more than Apollo knows,
For oft' when he lies sleeping
I see the stars at mortal wars
In the wounded welkin weeping.

The moon's my constant mistress.
The lonely owl my marrow.
The flaming drake and the night crow make
The music to my sorrows.

Spirits white as lightning
Shall on my travels guide me.
The stars would shake and the moon would quake
Whenever they espied me.

It's then that I'll be murdering
The Man in the Moon to a powder.
His staff I'll break, his dog I'll shake
And there'll howl no demon louder.

By a host of furious fancies,
Whereof I am commander;
With a burning spear and a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander.

By a knight of ghosts and shadows,
I summoned am to tourney,
Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end -
Methinks it is no journey.

So drink to Tom of Bedlam -
Go fill the seas in barrels -
I'll drink it all, well brewed with gall
And maudlin drunk I'll quarrel.

And 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 or money.

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from Spear of Flame, Horse of Air, released October 31, 2013
traditional, arrangement by Stone Breath

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We sing of ghosts and of forgotten paths through forest and fallow field.

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