Lyr Add: Bodhrans and Banjos

Subject: Lyr Add: BODHRANS AND BANJOS (Ian McCalman)
From: Ernest
Date: 05 May 04 - 03:41 PM

BODHRANS AND BANJOS
A Song by Ian McCalman from the McCalmans album "Tangled Web"

I´ll have to leve this session `cos my voice and I have parted
I´ve murdered songs all afternoon and half-way through the night
My brain was put to bed before the singing really started
I´ll never leave before the morning light
I can`t get home without some help and she left hours before
So I will concentrate and try to walk towards the door
The singing rises once again they need another voice and then
Bodhrans and Banjos start to play

Chorus:
Bodhrans and Banjos, here they go again
An instrumental nightmare that never seems to end
There`s singing in the kitchen and there`s fiddling in the hall
But Bodhrans and Banjos massacre them all
Bodhrans and Banjos massacre them all

Well I tried to phone a taxi but I know it`s never coming
And I don`t know where I live it`s somewhere near the town
The singing`s getting louder but the drums are getting closer
"Auld Lang Syne" is losing ground
A deliverance of Banjos joins the squad-a-rons of bod-ha-rans
Irish jigs and reels get underway
The drums are on the Richter-scale, the banjos never seem to fail
Riverdance on speed has won the day

Repeat Chorus

The Banjos are still twanging and the Bodhrans are still banging
As the singers are defeated by the pigskin and the goat
A pitiful desaster, as the tunes get ever faster
And the tearful music-lovers get their coats
Another party`s over and I´ve nothing more to give
I remember why I came here, this is where I live
I`ll have another party but I´ve got to make it clear
No Bodhrans and Banjos invited next year
No Bodhrans and Banjos invited next year

Repeat Chorus twice


I HAD to put this song here...

Yours
Ernest