歌手: Jake Thackray
时长: 03:33
Jolly Captain - Jake Thackray[00:00:01]
There once was an old captain who[00:00:13]
Wished nothing more[00:00:16]
Than to live again his voyages and[00:00:17]
Walk by the seashore [00:00:20]
A simple man and a good man [00:00:24]
But the bane of his life[00:00:26]
Was his ill-tempered bad-hearted[00:00:28]
Bitch of a wife [00:00:31]
Though the jolly captain was plagued by her bile[00:00:34]
He smoked his long pipe and[00:00:38]
He smiled upon her tenderly [00:00:40]
He didn't like her much but he'd loved her [00:00:43]
Despite her rough tongue[00:00:45]
The whey-faced old nag-bag had[00:00:48]
Been his pretty darling once[00:00:50]
She fell down her staircase she fractured her neck [00:01:00]
She lay upon the linoleum in a black apoplexy [00:01:04]
Her baleful eyes bulged with unspeakable abuse:[00:01:11]
It seems that her spleen had been overproducing[00:01:16]
So the jolly captain carried her to bed [00:01:21]
"Close your poor eyes " he said [00:01:25]
"sleep a little peaceably" [00:01:28]
He brought her fresh butter and cool watercress [00:01:30]
Violet and peppermint to soothe[00:01:35]
Her heart's bitterness[00:01:38]
From her death bed she said "[00:01:47]
If you marry when I die[00:01:49]
"I'll crawl from my coffin to[00:01:52]
Haunt you vexatiously" [00:01:54]
With a howl and a scowl with a[00:01:58]
Shudder and a shake[00:02:00]
She spat out her peppermint[00:02:02]
And went to vex her maker [00:02:05]
Unhappy captain so sad when she died [00:02:08]
He closed her wild eyes and[00:02:12]
He cried a bit on the Friday [00:02:14]
But he saw no good reason[00:02:17]
For wasting away [00:02:19]
So he married an apple-cheeked[00:02:21]
Girl on the Saturday[00:02:24]
Alas jolly captain you're married too soon [00:02:34]
She'll come to torment you[00:02:38]
From underneath her tombstone [00:02:41]
She'll scratch and she'll claw her[00:02:44]
Way up from the grave [00:02:47]
Hacking her way back again[00:02:50]
With furious fingernails [00:02:52]
"No " said the jolly captain [00:02:55]
"she'll stay in her place [00:02:57]
"She can scratch she can scrape [00:02:58]
Till she's black in the face [00:03:01]
"No she won't come to haunt[00:03:03]
Me and taunt me I know [00:03:05]
"'Cause I buried her face downward [00:03:08]
She's a long way to go [00:03:11]
"No she won't come to haunt me[00:03:12]
And taunt me I know [00:03:15]
"'Cause I buried her face downward [00:03:17]
She's a long way to go "[00:03:20]