[00:00.000] 作词 : Richard Dawson
[00:00.488] 作曲 : Richard Dawson
[00:00.976] [Verse 1]
[00:48.110] We ascended the foaming stair
[00:53.637] To the mouth of the Hobthrush's cave
[01:00.405] Decanted the hot wine from a nanny's throat
[01:06.934] And placed loaves on the greasy stones
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[01:17.891] Our baby's lips are blue
[01:24.057] Our baby's eyes grow dim
[01:29.862] Take it off! Take it off! Take it off - the whooping cough
[01:37.902] And we'd be your eternal debtors
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[01:45.496] [Verse 2]
[01:45.783] As the doorway drew near our eldest appeared
[01:52.563] With a bundle in her arms
[01:59.564] It was clutching her tresses and nuzzling her breast
[02:07.810] And the colour was returned
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[02:36.910] I used to hold him in the palm of one hand
[02:43.232] Now he's grown as tall as  I am
[02:49.862] With the face of his mother veiled in downy gold
[02:56.963] On the broad shoulders of a man
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[03:07.943] [Verse 3]
[03:08.408] He is strong with the second sight
[03:13.629] In these parts held in some renown
[03:20.209] Using words not his own he veraciously foretold
[03:28.020] Of a drought when the stream was bulging
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[03:39.726] When the pictures become too real
[03:46.068] He buries his nose in the bush of my beard
[03:52.948] And gently pinches my earlobe between thumb and forefinger
[04:01.615] Until the present is restored
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[04:09.116] [Verse 4]
[04:09.448] At the murmur of dawn there's a knock at the door
[04:16.396] And a small man standing by
[04:24.360] He is wearing a dogshide and flies for a crown
[04:32.117] One good eye a sparkling well in his brow
[04:40.313] I'd already acquainted myself of that voice
[04:49.283] Before he'd even spoke:
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[04:57.135] "I have come to collect what is rightfully owed
[05:06.236] Rouse the boy from slept
[05:10.614] Get him bathed and dressed
[05:15.566] It is time he kept your end of the bargain"
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[05:31.216] The bargain
[05:36.316] The bargain