Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Boys Of Bedlam, artist - Steeleye Span. Date of issue: 31.07.2003
Song language: English
Boys Of Bedlam |
| 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 |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |
| I went down to Satan’s kitchen |
| For to get me food one morning |
| And there I got souls piping hot |
| All on the spit a-turning |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |
| Me staff has murdered giants |
| And me bag a long knife carries |
| For to cut mince pies from children’s thighs |
| With which to feed the fairies |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |
| This spirit’s white as lightning |
| Would on me travels guide me |
| The moon would shake and the stars would quake |
| When ever they espied me |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |
| And when that I have murdered |
| The man in the moon to a powder |
| His staff I’ll break and his dog I’ll shake |
| And there’ll howl no demon louder |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |
| For to see mad Tom of Bedlam |
| Ten thousand years I’d travel |
| Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes |
| For to save her shoes from gravel |
| Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys |
| Bedlam boys are bonnie |
| For they all go bare and they live by the air |
| And they want no drink nor money |