Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song When You Play the Violin, artist - The Gothic Archies. Album song The Tragic Treasury, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 08.10.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
When You Play the Violin |
| I have known little civility, sir |
| Few have been kind, fewer truthful |
| And though within my ability, sir |
| I remain dutifully youthful |
| I go gray, then bald, with chagrin |
| When you play the violin |
| How I pray for death to begin |
| When you play the violin |
| True, there’s been trouble and trickery, sir |
| Trembling and tribulations |
| Twitches from switches of hickory, sir |
| You, sir, and your usurpations |
| But my patience wears very thin |
| When you play the violin |
| How I stay, I can’t imagine |
| When you play the violin |
| I’ve endured struggling and thuggery, sir |
| Physical Ed and psychosis |
| Sculleries, skulls, and skullduggery, sir |
| Haplessness, hype and hypnosis |
| But, oy vey! |
| The horrible din |
| When you play the violin |
| You betray an ear made of tin |
| When you play, when you slay |
| The violin… |
| (Proceeds to play violin) |