Maddy Prior Boys Of Bedlam
For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
10,000 miles I'd travel
Mad Mauldin 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 this morning
And there I got soul's piping hot
All on the spit a-turning
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My staff hath murdered giants
And my bag along I carries
I 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 quake and the stars would shake
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 dog I'll shake
And there'll howl no demon louder
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For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
10,000 years I'd travel
Mad Mauldin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel
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