lirik lagu a cautionary song – colin meloy
there’s a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping
through the lights of beacon street
and if you listen you can hear her weeping, she’s weeping,
cause the gentlemen are calling and the snow is softly falling on her petticoats.
and she’s standing in the harbour and she’s waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat. see how they approach
with dirty hands and trousers torn they grapple ’til she’s safe within their keeping
a gag is placed between her lips to keep her sorry tongue from any speaking, or screaming
and they row her out to packets where the sailor’s sorry racket calls for maidenhead
and she’s scarce above the gunholes when her clothes fall to a bundle and she’s laid in bed on the upper deck
and so she goes from ship to ship, her ankles clasped, her arms so rudely pinioned
’til at last she’s satisfied the lot of the marina’s teeming minions, in their opinions
and they tell her not to say a thing to cousin, kindred, kith or kin or she’ll end up dead
and they throw her thirty dollars and return her to the harbor where she goes to bed, and this is how you’re fed
so be kind to your mother, though she may seem an awful bother,
and the next time she tries to feed you colored grease, remember what she does when you’re asleep
lirik lagu lainnya :
- kumpulan lirik lagu marso › lirik lagu da zeim – marso
- kumpulan lirik lagu gabbie hanna › lirik lagu silver lining (extended version) – gabbie hanna
- kumpulan lirik lagu jordan max › lirik lagu chains – jordan max
- kumpulan lirik lagu yaux › lirik lagu phlegm – yaux
- kumpulan lirik lagu caleb robertson › lirik lagu you are loved – caleb robertson
- kumpulan lirik lagu 麥浚龍 juno mak › lirik lagu 拿走我呼吸 (take my breath away) – 麥浚龍 (juno mak)
- kumpulan lirik lagu the sharretts › lirik lagu pleasure servin’ you – the sharretts
- kumpulan lirik lagu abby holliday › lirik lagu better by now – abby holliday
- kumpulan lirik lagu the sharretts › lirik lagu somebody bigger than you and i / you’ll never walk alone – the sharretts
- kumpulan lirik lagu money boy › lirik lagu rubberbandz – money boy