original front and back art by Jim Nelson
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My third and final album with the fabulous Gypsy Guerrilla Band
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about
Bedlam was short for Bethlehem Hospital - an insane asylum
lyrics
For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I've traveled,
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes,
For to save her shoes from gravel,
chorus
Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys,
Bedlam boys are bonny,
For they all go bare and they live by the air,
And they want no drink or money.
I now regret that ever,
Poor Tom was so disdained,
My wits I lost when him I crossed,
Which makes me thus go chained. chorus
My staff has murdered giants,
My pack a long knife carries,
For to cut mince pies from children's thighs,
And to feed them to the fairies. chorus
And when I go a murdering,
The man in the moon to the powder,
His staff I'll break and his dog I'll shake,
And there'll howl no demon louder. chorus
So drink to Tom of Bedlam,
Come fill the season'd barrel,
We'll drink it all well brewed with gall,
And maudlin drunk we'll quarrel. chorus
credits
from Bedlam Boys,
released April 1, 2020
Jim Hancock - lead voice, guitar, electric bass
Jim Lillquist - hammered dulcimer
Joyce Lillquist - autoharp
Bob Bielefeld - fife, penny whistle
Michael Marzella - contrabass vocal
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Ty Billings, Doug Kondziolka, Fred James, Dave Massengale,
Cris Arnold, Carol Black, Barby Holder, Joni Massengale, Mary Lux,
Ta-rel Roché, Leslie Tabor
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