Schelmish Boys of Bedlam Lyrics

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam ten thousand miles I travelled
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes for to save her shoes from gravel.

Still I sing "Bonny boys, bonny mad boys, Bedlam boys are bonny",
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 a spit a-turning.

My staff has murdered giants and my bag a long knife carries
To cut mince pies from children's thighs with which to feed the fairies.

My spirit's white as lightning would on my travels guide me
The moon would shake and the stars would quake whenever they espied me.

And when that I have murdered the man in the moon to a powder
His staff I'll break and his doct I'll shake and there howl no demon louder.

For to see mad Tom of Bedlam ten thousand years I travelled
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes for to save her shoes from gravel.

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