The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124764   Message #3611604
Posted By: GUEST,LynnH
21-Mar-14 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Silly short songs
Subject: RE: Silly short songs
What a local bus ride can be good for..............

"The king has been a prisoner
A prisoner long in Spain
- And they can keep him!

Hello darkness my old friend
- haven't paid the bill again / snow on the cables again!

Through bushes and through briars I lately made my way
- I'm all scratched up and my clothes are ruined

When they poured across the border I was ordered to surrender
- I obeyed

True Thomas lay on Huntly Bank
- Stoned as usual

Did you ever hear of brave Earl Brand?
-No.

Lady Margaret sat in her castle tower, sewing a silken seam
She looked out through the high window
She saw the fog was thick