《The Beefeater》歌词

歌曲： The Beefeater

所属专辑：Stories Of Old Sam & Other Favourites

歌手： Stanley Holloway

时长： 03:54

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The Beefeater - Stanley Holloway[00:00:00]

Written by：Bert Lee/R P Weston[00:00:00]

Oh dear starting another day I suppose[00:00:08]

Showing these ere gumps around the tower[00:00:11]

Still it's got to be done[00:00:14]

Someone's got to do it[00:00:16]

Good morning what's that[00:00:18]

Will I show you around t'tower sir[00:00:20]

You're from Yorkshire sir[00:00:23]

Ba goon the world's small[00:00:24]

I'm from Yorkshire myself aye[00:00:27]

These ere cockneys don't know[00:00:29]

There's a tower here at all[00:00:31]

First of all sir we come to the canteen[00:00:34]

Where you wash the cobwebs off your chest[00:00:37]

That's our motto there[00:00:40]

Honi soit quit may y pense[00:00:41]

And in Yorkshire that means beer is best[00:00:44]

Eh I'll have a pint sir and thank yer[00:00:47]

You'll find it good ale to sup[00:00:51]

Well as guy Fawkes said when he got bunged in dungeon[00:00:54]

And tumbled head first bottoms up[00:00:57]

That big ole outside is the moat sir[00:01:01]

And they do say if ever john bull[00:01:05]

Sells the tower for a road house with cracks puttied up[00:01:07]

It'll make a damn fine swimming pool[00:01:11]

And now sir we come to armory[00:01:15]

Here's the tin pants of dick coeur de lion[00:01:18]

Just imagine the job that his old woman had[00:01:22]

Putting patches on with soldering iron[00:01:25]

Here's the shirt and the chainmail black prince wore[00:01:29]

To starch and iron that were real tricky[00:01:32]

It took three boilermakers to put on his shirt[00:01:35]

And a blacksmith to put on his dicky[00:01:38]

And this ere's the real eadsman's block sir[00:01:42]

From this many eads fell with a thud[00:01:45]

He to keep all these ere stains fresh[00:01:49]

All these three hundred years[00:01:51]

We've used buckets and buckets of blood[00:01:54]

Ere's the axes that's the genuine axes sir[00:01:57]

That's given royal necks some ard whacks[00:02:01]

Thou it's ad a new candle and perhaps a new head[00:02:04]

But it's a real old original axes[00:02:08]

And down here's where princes were murdered[00:02:11]

Aye strangled poor kids in cold blood[00:02:15]

And what's worse down here[00:02:19]

I tossed Scotsman for shilling[00:02:21]

I won but the shilling was dud[00:02:23]

And here's where they tortured the prisoners[00:02:26]

On that rack when they wouldn't confess[00:02:29]

They were crushed till their blood ran drip drip drip[00:02:33]

Feeling faint sir well here's sergeant's mess[00:02:39]

Eh oh thank you I will have a pint sir[00:02:43]

For talking's a day's work bet your life[00:02:47]

For when I show you ducking stool they had for women[00:02:50]

By goon you'll wish you'd brought the wife[00:02:54]

And why do they call us beefeaters[00:02:58]

Is it couse we eat beef sir nay nay[00:03:02]

The sergeant eats pork and the corporal eats bacon[00:03:06]

But I eat tripe three times a day[00:03:09]

And so you shall know we're beefeaters[00:03:13]

There's me who has fought in the wars[00:03:16]

As to walk round with frills on me neck like a hambone[00:03:19]

A daft hat and purple plus fours[00:03:23]

But here's why they call us beefeaters[00:03:27]

King Alfred one night so they say[00:03:31]

Fell over the feet of the sentry[00:03:35]

And shouted oi keep your b feet out of the way[00:03:37]