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Mad Tom of Bedlam

from Home Shuriken Kit by Feng Shui Ninjas

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Funny how the oldest song on the album is also the hardest rocking.

traditional arr. by Feng Shui Ninjas

lyrics

For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I'd travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
To save her shoes from gravel

(chorus)
It's well that we sing bonny boys
Bonny mad boys
Bedlam boys are bonny for they
All go bare and they live in the air
And they want no drink nor money

I went down to Satan's kitchen
For to break my fast one morning
And there I got souls popping hot
All on the spits a-turnin'
(chorus)

The spirits howled as lightning
Did on that journey guide me
The sun did shake and the pale moon quake
Whenever they did spy me
(chorus)

My staff has murdered giants
And my pack a long knife carries
For to slice mince pies from children's thighs
From which to feed the faeries
(chorus)

Tonight I'll go a murderin'
The man in the moon to a powder
His dog I'll shake and his staff I'll break
And I'll howl a wee bit louder
(chorus)

For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I'd travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel
(chorus)

credits

from Home Shuriken Kit, released June 26, 2010
Dave: guitar
John: organ
Justin: drums
Tami: vocals

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Feng Shui Ninjas Minneapolis, Minnesota

A punk band in reverse, or a folk band on fast forward? The Feng Shui Ninjas don't do genre.

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