New Gypsy - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

It was gobbled up by everyone

Trying to get its taste

While I marched balking at

How I had been so rudely placed

Recommended was a bar

Where we could feel alone

Unsurrounded unadorned

Unhappy and forlorn

Never take sick advice

From the lips of sick friends

Following the sickness takes

Its own unending end

It’s the land it is the land

Swept over by the light

Run with dogs and wave your arms

And don’t come home till night

Does everybody talk about

Another one at night

Break a button open and

Let lady see the light

All the bones were slipping out

Now I have brought me in

Never let the weakness slip

Into the trend again

One of my family has a house

She’s offered me to stay

And leave the love to everyone

Whom obstacles waylay

Never take the advice

From the lips of sick friends

Rather take it turn it round

Till it suits your own ends

You can lay me out a place

It’s time I had some love

Have the ladies gather round

And do me from above