
Date of issue: 23.01.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Poor Thing |
There was a barber and his wife |
And he was beautiful |
A proper artist with a knife |
But they transported him for life |
And he was beautiful |
Barker, his name was. |
Benjamin Barker |
Transported? |
What was his crime? |
Foolishness… |
He had this wife, y’see |
Pretty little thing |
Silly little nit |
Had her chance for the moon on a string |
Poor thing! |
Poor thing! |
There were these two, y’see |
Wanted her like mad! |
One of 'em a judge, t’other one his beadle! |
Every day they’d nudge and they’d wheedle! |
But she wouldn’t budge from her needle! |
Too bad |
Pure thing |
So they merely shipped the poor blighter off south, they did |
Leaving 'er with nothing but grief and a year-old kid! |
Did she use her head even then? |
Oh no, God forbid! |
Poor fool! |
Ah, but there was worse yet to come |
Poor thing! |
Johanna… That was the child’s name, pretty little Johanna |
Go on |
My, you do like a good story, don’t you? |
Well, Beadle calls on her all polite |
Poor thing! |
Poor thing! |
The judge, he tells her, is all contrite |
He blames himself for her dreadful plight |
She must come straight to his house tonight! |
Poor thing! |
Poor thing! |
Of course when she goes there |
Poor thing |
Poor thing! |
They’re having this ball all in masks |
There’s no one she knows there |
Poor dear |
Poor thing! |
She wonders, tormented and drinks |
Poor thing! |
The judge has repented, she thinks |
Poor thing! |
«Oh, where is Judge Turpin?» |
she asks… |
He was there, alright |
Only not so contrite! |
She wasn’t no match for such craft, y’see |
And everyone thought it so droll |
They figured she had to be daft, y’see |
So all of them stood there and laughed, y’see! |
Poor soul! |
Poor thing! |
No! |
Would no one have mercy on her? |
So it is you, Benjamin Barker! |
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Another Hundred People | 2007 |
Someone Is Waiting | 2007 |
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Barcelona | 2007 |
The Ladies Who Lunch | 2007 |
The Little Things You Do Together | 2007 |
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