Bedlam Boys / The Rights Of Man - Old Blind Dogs

To see Mad Tom of Bedlam, ten thousand miles I traveled

Maudlin clothes for dirty toes, just to save her shoes from gravel

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, and they want no drink or no

money

I went to Pluto’s kitchen, just to break my fast one morning

And there I got souls piping hot, that on the spit were turning

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, and they want no drink or no

money

My staff has murdered giants, and my pack a long knife carries

To cut mince pies from children’s thighs, with which to feed the fairies

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, and they want no drink or no

money

Spirits white as lightning, did on my journey guide me

The sun did shake, the pale moon quake, when e’er she did espy me

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, and they want no drink or no

money

No gypsy, slut nor doxy, can take my Mad Tom from me

I’ll dance all night and with stars fight, the fray it shall become me

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, and they want no drink or no

money

To see Mad Tom of Bedlam, ten thousand miles I traveled

Maudlin clothes for dirty toes, just to save her shoes from gravel

Oh, will I sing, bonny boys, bonny mad boys

Bedlam boys are bonny

For they all go bare and they live in the air, they want no drink or no money