《The Beefeater》歌词

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

[00:00:00] Written by：Bert Lee/R P Weston

[00:00:08] 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

[00:00:23] You're from Yorkshire sir

[00:00:24] Ba goon the world's small

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

[00:00:29] These ere cockneys don't know

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

[00:00:34] First of all sir we come to the canteen

[00:00:37] Where you wash the cobwebs off your chest

[00:00:40] That's our motto there

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

[00:00:44] And in Yorkshire that means beer is best

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

[00:00:51] 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

[00:01:05] 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

[00:01:15] And now sir we come to armory

[00:01:18] Here's the tin pants of dick coeur de lion

[00:01:22] Just imagine the job that his old woman had

[00:01:25] Putting patches on with soldering iron

[00:01:29] Here's the shirt and the chainmail black prince wore

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

[00:01:35] It took three boilermakers to put on his shirt

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

[00:01:42] And this ere's the real eadsman's block sir

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

[00:01:49] He to keep all these ere stains fresh

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

[00:01:54] We've used buckets and buckets of blood

[00:01:57] Ere's the axes that's the genuine axes sir

[00:02:01] That's given royal necks some ard whacks

[00:02:04] Thou it's ad a new candle and perhaps a new head

[00:02:08] But it's a real old original axes

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

[00:02:15] Aye strangled poor kids in cold blood

[00:02:19] And what's worse down here

[00:02:21] I tossed Scotsman for shilling

[00:02:23] I won but the shilling was dud

[00:02:26] And here's where they tortured the prisoners

[00:02:29] On that rack when they wouldn't confess

[00:02:33] They were crushed till their blood ran drip drip drip

[00:02:39] Feeling faint sir well here's sergeant's mess

[00:02:43] Eh oh thank you I will have a pint sir

[00:02:47] For talking's a day's work bet your life

[00:02:50] For when I show you ducking stool they had for women

[00:02:54] By goon you'll wish you'd brought the wife

[00:02:58] And why do they call us beefeaters

[00:03:02] Is it couse we eat beef sir nay nay

[00:03:06] The sergeant eats pork and the corporal eats bacon

[00:03:09] But I eat tripe three times a day

[00:03:13] And so you shall know we're beefeaters

[00:03:16] There's me who has fought in the wars

[00:03:19] As to walk round with frills on me neck like a hambone

[00:03:23] A daft hat and purple plus fours

[00:03:27] But here's why they call us beefeaters

[00:03:31] King Alfred one night so they say

[00:03:35] Fell over the feet of the sentry

[00:03:37] And shouted oi keep your b feet out of the way