《The Beefeater》歌词

[00:00:00] The Beefeater - Stanley Holloway

[00:00:05] Oh dear starting another day I suppose

[00:00:11] Showing these ere gumps around the Tower

[00:00:14] Still it's got to be done

[00:00:16] Someone's got to do it

[00:00:18] Good Morning What's that

[00:00:20] Will I show you around t'Tower Sir

[00:00:22] You're from Yorkshire Sir

[00:00:24] Ba goom The world's small

[00:00:27] I'm from Yorkshire meself aye

[00:00:28] These ere Cockneys don't know

[00:00:31] There's a tower here at all

[00:00:33] First of all Sir we come to the canteen

[00:00:36] Where you wash the cobwebs off your chest

[00:00:39] That's our motto there

[00:00:41] Honi soit qui may y pense

[00:00:43] And in Yorkshire that means beer is best

[00:00:47] Eh I'll have a pint Sir and thank yer

[00:00:50] You'll find it good ale to sup

[00:00:54] Well as Guy Fawkes said when he got bunged in Dungeon

[00:00:57] And tumbled head first Bottoms up

[00:01:01] That big ole outside is the moat Sir

[00:01:04] And they do say if ever John Bull

[00:01:07] Sells the tower for a road house with cracks puttied up

[00:01:11] It'll make a damn fine swimming pool

[00:01:14] And now Sir we come to armoury

[00:01:18] Here's the tin pants of Dick Coeur de Lion

[00:01:21] Just imagine the job that his old woman had

[00:01:24] Putting patches on with soldering iron

[00:01:27] Here's the shirt and the chainmail Black Prince wore

[00:01:32] To starch and iron that were real tricky

[00:01:34] It took three boilermakers to put on his shirt

[00:01:38] And a blacksmith to put on his dicky

[00:01:41] And this ere's the real eadsman's block Sir

[00:01:45] From this many eads fell with a thud

[00:01:48] Ee to keep all these ere stains fresh

[00:01:51] All these three hundred years

[00:01:53] We've used buckets and buckets of blood

[00:01:56] Ere's the axe that's the genuine axe Sir

[00:02:00] That's given Royal necks some ard whacks

[00:02:03] Tho it's ad a new andle and perhaps a new head

[00:02:07] But it's a real old original axe

[00:02:11] And down here's where Princes were murdered

[00:02:14] Aye strangled poor kids in cold blood

[00:02:18] And what's worse down here

[00:02:20] I tossed Scotsman for shilling

[00:02:22] I won but the shilling was dud

[00:02:25] And here's where they tortured the prisoners

[00:02:28] On that rack when they wouldn't confess

[00:02:31] They were crushed till their blood ran drip drip drip

[00:02:38] Feeling faint Sir Well here's sergeant's mess

[00:02:42] Eh Oh thank you I will have a pint Sir

[00:02:45] For talking's a day's work Bet your life

[00:02:49] For when I show you ducking stool they had for women

[00:02:53] By Goom you'll wish you'd brought the wife

[00:02:56] And why do they call us Beefeaters

[00:03:00] Is it couse we eat beef Sir Nay nay

[00:03:04] The sergeant eats pork and the corporal eats bacon

[00:03:08] But I eat tripe three times a day

[00:03:11] And so you shall know we're Beefeaters

[00:03:15] There's me who has fought in the wars

[00:03:18] As to walk round with frills on me neck like a hambone

[00:03:22] A daft hat and purple plus fours

[00:03:26] But here's why they call us Beefeaters

[00:03:30] King Alfred one night so they say

[00:03:33] Fell over the feet of the sentry

[00:03:36] And shouted Oi Keep your B feet out of the way