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For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
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Ten thousand miles I've traveled
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Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
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For to save her shoes from gravel.
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 2]
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I went down to Satan's kitchen
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For to get me food one morning
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And there I got souls piping hot
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All on the spit a-turning
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 3]
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And there I took up cauldron
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Where boiled ten thousand harlots
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Though full of flame I drank the same
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To the health of all such varlets
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 4]
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My staff has murdered giants
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My bag a long knife carries
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For to cut mince pies from children's thighs
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And feed them to the fairies
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 5]
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The spirits white as lightening
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Would on me travels guide me
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The stars would shake and the moon would quake
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Whenever they espied me
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 6]
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And when that I'll be murdering
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The Man in the Moon to the powder
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His staff I'll break, his dog I'll shake
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And there'll howl no demon louder
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 7]
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No gypsy, slut or doxy
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Shall win my mad Tom from me
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I'll weep all night, with stars I'll fight
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The fray shall well become me
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 8]
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So drink to Tom O’Bedlam
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Go fill the seas in barrels
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I’ll drink it all well brewed with gall
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And Maudlin drunk we’ll quarrel
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 9]
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For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
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Ten thousand years I have traveled
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Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
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For to save her shoes from gravel.
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 10]
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Now I repent that ever
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Poor Tom was so disdain'd
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My wits were lost when him I cross't
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Which makes me go thus chain'd
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 11]
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My horn is made of thunder
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I stole it out of heaven
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The rainbow there is this I wear
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For which I thence was driven
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.
[Verse 12]
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And now that I have gotten
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A lease than doomsday longer
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To live on earth with some in mirth
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Ten whales shall ease my hunger
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Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
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Bedlam boys are bonny
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For they all go bare and they live by the air
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And they want no drink nor money.