《A Cautionary Song(Live)》歌词

[00:00:00] A Cautionary Song (Live) - Colin Meloy (梅洛伊科林·帕特里克·亨利)

[00:00:01] Written by：Colin Meloy

[00:00:32] There's a place your mother goes

[00:00:34] When everybody else is soundly sleeping

[00:00:42] Through the lights of beacon street

[00:00:44] And if you listen you can hear her weeping

[00:00:50] She's weeping

[00:00:54] 'Cause the gentlemen are calling

[00:00:57] And the snow is softly falling on her petticoat

[00:01:04] And she's standing in the harbor

[00:01:07] And she's waiting for the sailors in the Jolly boat

[00:01:12] See how they approach

[00:01:17] With dirty hands and trousers torn

[00:01:20] They grapple till she's safe within their keeping

[00:01:27] A gag is placed between her lips

[00:01:30] To keep her sorry tongue from any speaking

[00:01:34] Or screaming

[00:01:38] And they row her out to packets

[00:01:41] Where the sailors' sorry racket falls for maidenhead

[00:01:48] And she's scarce above the gunwales

[00:01:51] When her clothes fall to a bundle and she's laid in bed

[00:01:55] On the upper deck

[00:02:23] And

[00:02:25] So she goes from ship to ship

[00:02:27] Her ankles clasped her arms so rudely pinioned

[00:02:34] And 'till at last she's satisfied

[00:02:36] The lot of the marina's teeming minions

[00:02:40] In their opinions

[00:02:44] And they tell her not to say a thing

[00:02:47] To cousin kindred kith or kin or she'll end up dead

[00:02:53] And they throw her thirty dollars

[00:02:55] And return her to the harbor where she goes to bed

[00:02:59] And this is how you're fed

[00:03:04] So be kind to your mother

[00:03:10] Though she may seem an awful bother

[00:03:16] And the next time she tries to feed you collard greens

[00:03:26] Remember what she does when you're asleep