《When You Had Left Your Pirates Fold》歌词

[00:00:00] When You Had Left Your Pirates Fold - Martyn Green/Darrell Fancourt/Donald Harris

[00:00:07] When you had left our pirate fold

[00:00:09] We tried to raise our spirits faint

[00:00:11] According to our customs old

[00:00:13] With quips and quibbles quaint

[00:00:15] But all in vain the quips we heard

[00:00:17] We layed and sobbed upon the rocks

[00:00:20] Until to somebody occurred

[00:00:22] A startling paradox

[00:00:23] A paradox

[00:00:23] A paradox

[00:00:24] A most ingenious paradox

[00:00:27] We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks

[00:00:28] But none to beat this paradox

[00:00:32] A paradox a paradox

[00:00:33] A most ingenious paradox

[00:00:35] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:00:37] This paradox

[00:00:43] We knew your taste for curious quips

[00:00:45] For cranks and contradictions queer

[00:00:47] And with the laughter on our lips

[00:00:48] We wished you there to hear

[00:00:50] We said If we could tell it him

[00:00:53] How Frederic would the joke enjoy

[00:00:55] And so we've risked both life and limb

[00:00:57] To tell it to our boy

[00:00:59] A paradox

[00:00:59] A paradox

[00:01:00] This most ingenious paradox

[00:01:02] We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks

[00:01:04] But none to beat this paradox

[00:01:07] A paradox a paradox

[00:01:09] A most ingenious paradox

[00:01:11] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:01:13] This paradox

[00:01:19] For some ridiculous reason to which

[00:01:22] However I've no desire to be disloyal

[00:01:26] Some person in authority

[00:01:28] I don't know who

[00:01:29] Very likely the Astronomer Royal

[00:01:33] Has decided that

[00:01:34] Although for such a beastly month as February

[00:01:37] Twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty

[00:01:42] One year in every four his days shall

[00:01:45] Be reckoned as nine and twenty

[00:01:48] Through some singular coincidence

[00:01:50] I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing

[00:01:52] To the agency of an ill-natured fairy

[00:01:56] You are the victim of

[00:01:58] This clumsy arrangement

[00:01:59] Having been born in leap-year

[00:02:00] On the twenty-ninth of February

[00:02:05] And so by a simple arithmetical process

[00:02:08] You'll easily discover

[00:02:12] That though you've lived twenty-one years

[00:02:14] Yet if we go by birthdays

[00:02:17] You're only five

[00:02:19] And a little bit over

[00:02:21] Ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:02:22] Ho ho ho ho

[00:02:26] Dear me Let's see Yes yes

[00:02:29] With yours my figures do agree

[00:02:32] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:02:38] How quaint the ways of Paradox

[00:02:40] At common sense she gaily mocks

[00:02:43] Though counting in the usual way

[00:02:45] Is twenty-one I've been alive

[00:02:48] Yet reckoning by my natal day

[00:02:50] Yet reckoning by my natal day

[00:02:57] I am a little boy of five

[00:02:59] He is a little boy of five

[00:03:01] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:03:04] A paradox a paradox

[00:03:05] A most ingenious paradox

[00:03:07] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:03:09] A paradox

[00:03:10] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:03:12] A curious paradox

[00:03:14] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[00:03:16] A most ingenious paradox