Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Come all ye starry star-fish, living in the deep blue sea
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Crawl to me, I have a propo-sition to make thee
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Would you walk the North Sea floor, to Belgium from Eng-land
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Bring me word of a banjo man
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With a tattoo on his hand
[Verse 2]
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The spokesman of the star-fish, spoke as spokesman should
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If'n you met our fee, then certainly we would
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Should you cast a looking-glass u-pon the scalloped sand
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You'll have word o' this banjo man
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With a tattoo on his hand
[Verse 3]
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Come all ye starry star-fish, I know your ways are caped
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Maybe its be-cause you're astro-logically shaped
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Converse with the herring shoals, as I know you can
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Bring me word o' the banjo man
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With a tattoo on his hand
[Verse 4]
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The eldest of the star-fish, spoke after a sigh
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"Youthful as you are young man you have a wisdom high
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Surely you must know a looking-glass is made from sand
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These young fish are fooling you
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A-bout your banjo man
[Verse 5]
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Come then aged star-fish, riddle me no more
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For news I am wea-ry, and my heart is sore
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All on the silent sea-shore, help me if you can
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Tell to me, if you know, of my banjo man
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Now all through the seven o-ceans, I am a star most famed
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Many 'leggys' have I lost, many have I gained
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Strange to say, quite recent-ly, I've been to Flemish Land
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And if you are courteous, I'll tell you all I can
[Verse 7]
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Oh you have my full at-ten-tion", I answered him with glee
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His brother stars were twink-ling, in the sky above the sea
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There I sat there with rapt at-tention, on the sand
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Very anxious for to hear, of the banjo man
[Verse 8]
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I have seen this tattooed hand, through a ship port-hole
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Steaming on the watery main, through the waves so cold
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Heard his tinkling banjo, and his voice so grand
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But you must come to Belgium, to shake the tattooed hand
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Oh gladly would I come, gladly would I go
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Had I not my work to do, and my face to show
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I re-joice to hear he's well, but I must go in-land
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Thank you for the words you brought, of my banjo man
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I walked a-long the evening sand, as charcoal clouds did shift
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Re-vealing the moon shi-ning, on the pebble drift
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Contem-plating every other word, the starfish said
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Whistly winds, they filled my dreams, in my dreaming bed