The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw (2006 Digital Remaster)-Jake Thackray

歌手 : Jake Thackray

专辑 : Jake In A Box [The EMI Recordings 1967-1976]

语种 : 英语

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TXT The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw (2006 Digital Remaster)-Jake Thackray 文本歌词

The Ballad Of Billy Kershaw (2006 Digital Remaster) - Jake Thackray

He was small and baggy-trousered

He was nondescript and shy

But in his breast there burned a sacred flame

For women melted and surrendered

When they looked into his eyes

Little Billy Kershaw was the name by the way

He worked as a country ploughman so they say

Oh Lothario and Casanova mighty Don Juan

Those legendary goats of days of yore

Billy was better with his eyes closed

On one leg and with no hands

A trick which he could actually perform

By the way

Spectacular but dodgy so they say

He never did it for the profit of it

Never for applause

Only the silvery laughter that it caused

There was a difference in that Billy

Kershaw never picked the best

The beautiful the golden ones

That most men would

But the ugly ones the poorest

The despised the dispossessed

Where else would a hunchback

Get a cuddle by the way

Harelips can kiss or so they say

And so the shop-girl with the whiskers

Or the limping shepherdess

The squinting barmaid (her with the pocky skin)

Even the horse-like countess with

The teeth and meagre breasts

Which in fact had often harboured

Billy's chin by the way

Haughty but snug so they say

He never did it for the profit of it

Never for applause

Only the common comfort that it caused

Many a poor distracted Catholic

Rating Billy over Lourdes

Came smiling down his staircase

All her frenzy gone

And the husband far from angry

Would be chuffed that she was cured

And buy him a pint in the local later on

By the way;

Horses for courses as they say

He responded to the colonel's

Widow's desperate appeal

In the colonel's house upon the

Colonel's tiger skin

And in the potter's shop the potter's

Wife upon the potter's wheel

Which was steadily continuing to spin

By the way

A right tour de force so they say

But never ever for the profit of it

Never the applause

Only the passing happiness it caused

But soon the news of Billy Kershaw and

His life-enhancing powers

Became across the county widely known

And by his cottage gate the coachloads

Waited patiently for hours

The drivers made a bundle going home

By the way

Their caps were full of silver so they say

And the village did a roaring trade in

Teas and souvenirs

In ash trays and the local watercress

Until Billy disillusioned simply ups

And disappears

Leaving no forwarding address by the way

Could be anywhere at all or so they say

But it was not for the profit of it

Not for the applause

Only the consolation that it caused

If there should be a sad neglected

Wretched woman in your life

It could well be that Billy's near at hand

Perhaps your auntie or your daughter

Or your mother or your wife

And when did you last see your grandma

By the way

No genuine case is ever turned away

He's no rascal he's no charlatan

No mountebank no snob;

Whoever you are he'll treat you just the same

He is small and baggy-trousered

And he does a tidy job

Little Billy Kershaw is the name by the way;

He worked as a country ploughman so they say

But never ever for the profit of it

Never the applause

Only the common comfort that it caused

If you find that Billy's ballad is

Extravagant or trite

Offensive irrelevant or untrue

That may well be but here's a moral

Which will make us feel all right

A moral which may well apply to you

By the way;

Takes one to know one as they say

If you're ugly if you're weak or meek

Or queer form a queue

And the rest of us will travel from afar

And systematically we'll do to you

What Billy used to do

But more regular and always twice

As hard by the way

Mea culpa mea culpa

As they used to say