《The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw(2006 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw(2006 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976)

歌手： Jake Thackray

时长： 04:34

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The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw - Jake Thackray[00:00:00]

He was small and baggy-trousered [00:00:07]

He was nondescript and shy [00:00:09]

But in his breast there burned a sacred flame [00:00:10]

For women melted and surrendered[00:00:13]

When they looked into his eyes [00:00:15]

(Little Billy Kershaw was the name by the way [00:00:17]

He worked as a country ploughman so they say[00:00:20]

Oh Lothario and Casanova mighty Don Juan [00:00:23]

Those legendary goats of days of yore[00:00:26]

Billy was better with his eyes closed [00:00:29]

On one leg and with no hands [00:00:31]

(A trick which he could actually perform [00:00:33]

By the way [00:00:35]

Spectacular but dodgy so they say[00:00:36]

He never did it for the profit of it [00:00:39]

Never for applause [00:00:41]

Only the silvery laughter that it caused [00:00:43]

There was a difference in that Billy[00:00:52]

Kershaw never picked the best [00:00:54]

The beautiful the golden ones[00:00:56]

That most men would [00:00:57]

But the ugly ones the poorest [00:00:59]

The despised the dispossessed [00:01:01]

(Where else would a hunchback[00:01:02]

Get a cuddle by the way [00:01:04]

Harelips can kiss or so they say )[00:01:06]

And so the shop-girl with the whiskers [00:01:08]

Or the limping shepherdess [00:01:11]

The squinting barmaid (her with the pocky skin) [00:01:12]

Even the horse-like countess with[00:01:15]

The teeth and meagre breasts[00:01:17]

(Which in fact had often harboured[00:01:18]

Billy's chin by the way [00:01:20]

Haughty but snug so they say) [00:01:22]

He never did it for the profit of it [00:01:24]

Never for applause [00:01:27]

Only the common comfort that it caused [00:01:28]

Many a poor distracted Catholic [00:01:38]

Rating Billy over Lourdes [00:01:40]

Came smiling down his staircase [00:01:41]

All her frenzy gone [00:01:43]

And the husband far from angry [00:01:44]

Would be chuffed that she was cured[00:01:47]

(And buy him a pint in the local later on [00:01:48]

By the way;[00:01:50]

Horses for courses as they say) [00:01:51]

He responded to the colonel's[00:01:54]

Widow's desperate appeal[00:01:56]

In the colonel's house upon the[00:01:57]

Colonel's tiger skin [00:01:59]

And in the potter's shop the potter's[00:02:00]

Wife upon the potter's wheel[00:02:02]

(Which was steadily continuing to spin [00:02:04]

By the way [00:02:06]

A right tour de force so they say) [00:02:07]

But never ever for the profit of it [00:02:10]

Never the applause [00:02:13]

Only the passing happiness it caused [00:02:14]

But soon the news of Billy Kershaw and[00:02:23]

His life-enhancing powers[00:02:25]

Became across the county widely known [00:02:27]

And by his cottage gate the coachloads[00:02:29]

Waited patiently for hours [00:02:32]

(The drivers made a bundle going home [00:02:33]

By the way [00:02:36]

Their caps were full of silver so they say )[00:02:36]

And the village did a roaring trade in[00:02:39]

Teas and souvenirs [00:02:42]

In ash trays and the local watercress [00:02:43]

Until Billy disillusioned simply ups[00:02:46]

And disappears [00:02:48]

(Leaving no forwarding address by the way [00:02:49]

Could be anywhere at all or so they say )[00:02:52]

But it was not for the profit of it [00:02:55]

Not for the applause [00:02:58]

Only the consolation that it caused [00:02:59]

If there should be a sad neglected [00:03:08]

Wretched woman in your life [00:03:10]

It could well be that Billy's near at hand[00:03:12]

Perhaps your auntie or your daughter [00:03:15]

Or your mother or your wife [00:03:17]

(And when did you last see your grandma [00:03:18]

By the way [00:03:21]

No genuine case is ever turned away )[00:03:22]

He's no rascal he's no charlatan [00:03:25]

No mountebank no snob;[00:03:26]

Whoever you are he'll treat you just the same [00:03:28]

He is small and baggy-trousered [00:03:31]

And he does a tidy job [00:03:33]

(Little Billy Kershaw is the name by the way;[00:03:35]

He worked as a country ploughman so they say )[00:03:38]

But never ever for the profit of it [00:03:41]

Never the applause [00:03:43]

Only the common comfort that it caused [00:03:44]

If you find that Billy's ballad is[00:03:54]

Extravagant or trite [00:03:56]

Offensive irrelevant or untrue [00:03:57]

That may well be but here's a moral[00:04:00]

Which will make us feel all right[00:04:02]

(A moral which may well apply to you [00:04:04]

By the way;[00:04:06]

Takes one to know one as they say) [00:04:07]

If you're ugly if you're weak or meek [00:04:10]

Or queer form a queue[00:04:12]

And the rest of us will travel from afar[00:04:14]

And systematically we'll do to you[00:04:16]

What Billy used to do[00:04:18]

But more regular and always twice[00:04:20]

As hard by the way [00:04:22]

Mea culpa mea culpa [00:04:23]

As they used to say[00:04:25]