《The Ballad of Cedric...》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ballad Of Cedric - Moxy Fruvous

[00:00:01] Up until just recently

[00:00:02] Gambling was thought to be blasphemy

[00:00:05] Like wilson phillips evil stuff

[00:00:11] But canada is changing fast

[00:00:12] Loosening it up at last legally

[00:00:15] The new narcotic take a puff

[00:00:20] Casinos open to raise funds for social needs

[00:00:25] Full of roulette wheels

[00:00:27] Black jack and video slot machines

[00:00:30] Now guys like cedric perform benevolent deeds

[00:00:35] I've been saving up my welfare

[00:00:36] Just to throw the dice on the velvet greens

[00:00:39] Money made by dealing folks

[00:00:41] Goes to helping healing folks 'cross the land

[00:00:44] I stand and proudly gush

[00:00:49] Casinos are a ministry handled governmentally

[00:00:51] Show your hand

[00:00:53] I almost had a royal flush

[00:00:58] Since cedric spent his last dime on 15 to 2

[00:01:04] I put my chips on 32 red it went to black instead

[00:01:08] Guys like cedric are pulling medicaire through

[00:01:13] Now they're asking me to leave

[00:01:14] And I'm poor and I'm peeved so I just might heave

[00:01:17] So he mortgaged the house and he traded the kids

[00:01:20] And he studied the odds and he practiced the bids

[00:01:22] The he ran to province next door to his

[00:01:24] Where casinos were a brand new flourishing biz

[00:01:27] His new found luck at blackjack brought him such wealth

[00:01:32] They realized he'd make a perfect minister of health

[00:01:38] Now he's wearing all the hats

[00:01:39] Hanging out with bureaucrats at bookie joints

[00:01:42] He's a public money sponge

[00:01:48] Watch him place another bet

[00:01:49] We go deeper into debt losing points

[00:01:52] And credit ratings plunge

[00:01:57] We've made a virtue of that which used to be vice

[00:02:02] Lower tax on corporations gambling donations pay the bills

[00:02:07] Now gambling addicts are civil servants with dice

[00:02:12] Selling health to the hopeless pocketing the profits curing our ills

[00:02:16] Our social service is getting nervous

[00:02:21] As cedric hands it to one-armed bandits

[00:02:26] It's hell for purists but swell for tourists so yeah