[00:00.01]The Infanta
[00:09.56]The Decemberists from Picaresque
[00:12.90]Soundtrack of Mad Men Season 2
[00:17.74]by Shannon Yvox
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[00:22.33]Here she comes in her palanquin
[00:25.72]On the back of an elephant
[00:28.95]On a bed made of linen and sequins and sil
[00:36.43]All astride on her father's line
[00:40.09]With the king and his concubines
[00:43.81]And her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk
[00:50.89]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[00:57.80]And we'll all come praise the infanta
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[01:08.42]Among five score pachyderm
[01:12.27]Each canopied and passengered
[01:15.76]Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls
[01:23.09]Within sight of the baroness
[01:26.86]See thing spite for this lithe largesse
[01:30.19]By her side sits the baron
[01:32.83]Her barrenness barbs her
[01:37.14]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[01:44.06]And we'll all come praise the infanta
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[02:19.70]A phalanx on camelback
[02:23.29]Thirty ranks on a forward tack
[02:26.84]Followed close, their shiny bright standards a-waving
[02:33.84]While behind in their coach-and-fours
[02:37.64]Ride the wives of the king of Moors
[02:40.88]And the veiled young virgin, the prince's betrothed
[02:48.17]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[02:55.22]And we'll all come praise the infanta
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[03:05.99]And as she sits upon her place
[03:11.60]Her innocence laid on her face
[03:17.91]From all atop the parapets blow a multitude of coronets
[03:23.87]Melodies rhapsodical and fair
[03:29.47]And all our hearts afire
[03:31.80]The sky ablaze with cannon fire
[03:33.97]We all raise our voices to the air
[03:39.23]To the air...
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[03:46.84]And above all this folderol
[03:50.21]On a bed made of chaparral
[03:53.57]She is laid, a coronal placed on her brow
[04:00.76]And the babe, all in slumber dreams
[04:04.46]Of a place filled with quiet streams
[04:07.79]And the lake where her cradle was pulled from the water
[04:15.14]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[04:22.01]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[04:29.10]And we'll all come praise the infanta
[04:35.71]Ah...
[04:43.01]Ah...