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  1. Bedlam Boys

From the recording Samhain: A Celtic Halloween

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Bedlam Boys

Johnny McKenna - Samhaina Band
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Sung by John McKenna
Button Accordion: John McKenna
Fiddle: Vito Gutilla
Guitar: Padraic Conroy
Bodhran: Zac Leger
Cello: Erin Esses
Backing Vocals: Doreen Wiley
Percussion Feet: Aedan MacDonnell

Recorded and Mastered: Michael Kelly

Lyrics

For to see my Tom of Bedlam, 10,000 miles I'd travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes, to save her shoes from gravel.

[chorus]
Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys,
Bedlam boys are bonnie
For they all go bare and they live by the air,
And they want no drink nor money.

[verse]
I went down to Satin's kitchen, for to beg me food one morning
There I got souls piping hot, all on the spit a turning.

[chorus]

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

[chorus]

Spirits white as lightning, shall on my travels guide me
The moon would quake and the stars would shake, when' ere they espied me.

[chorus]

It's when next I have murdered, the Man-In-The-Moon to powder
His staff I'll break, his dog I'll bake, they'll howl no demon louder.

[chorus]

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