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Thread #42818   Message #627523
Posted By: Aidan Crossey
14-Jan-02 - 07:00 AM
Thread Name: Song Challenge! - Part 79
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 79
Also from "After The Break", "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure" lends itself very well to parodying in this thread …

You ramblin' boys of pleasure pay heed unto these words I write
I own I am a rover, in rambling I take great delight
I cast my eye on a pretty girl and I lose all sense of self-control
And so arose my sticky end, my last days I'll spend in the badger-hole

It was to the woods near Penrith Town, that my love and I our way did tread
The night bein' cold and the wind bein' keen, she kept her hat all on her head
And I was lost in some deep rapture, and didn't even notice yet
The tell-tale signs, the faults and tremors, around the mouth of the badger's sett

Well my final thrust, inspired by passion, was the straw that broke the camel's back
The earth gave way and I was falling into a chamber dark and black
Where ever since I've been imprisoned, a once-grand home that the badgers left
And my poor heart is forever breaking, forever more I am bereft

I wish I was in Penrith Town, and my true love to be in heat
We'd forsake the thought of the open-air, to my feather-bed we would retreat
And I would play a handsome medley, upon its springs of tempered steel
"The Blackberry Blossom", "Paddy Fahy's", "Junior Crehan's" and "The Dublin Reel"