BOYS OF BEDLAM
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for to see mad Tom of Bed - lam
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ten thousand miles I'd travel
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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 bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
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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 bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
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me staff has murdered giants
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and me bag a long knife carries.
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for to cut mince pies from children's thighs
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with which to feed the fairies.
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still I sing bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
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this spirit's white as lightning
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would on me travels guide me.
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the moon would shake and the stars would quake
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when ever they espied me.
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still I sing bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
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and when that I have murdered
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the man in the moon to a powder.
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his staff I'll break and his lug I'll shake
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and they'll howl no demon louder.
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still I sing bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
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for to see mad Tom of Bedlam
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ten thousand years I'd travel.
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Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
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for to save her shoes from gravel.
Dm C Am
still I sing bonnie boys bonnie mad boys,
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Bedlam boys are bonnie.
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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.
