《The Armadillo》歌词

[00:00:00] The Armadillo (犰狳) - Flanders & Swann

[00:00:40] I was taking compass bearings for the Ordinance Survey

[00:00:45] On an army training camp on Salisbury plain

[00:00:48] I had packed up my theodolite was calling it a day

[00:00:53] When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain:

[00:01:02] 'Oh my darling Armadillo

[00:01:05] Let me tell you of my love

[00:01:08] Listen to my Armadillo roundelay;

[00:01:13] Be my fellow on my pillow

[00:01:16] Underneath this weeping willow

[00:01:19] Be my darling Armadillo all the day '

[00:01:31] I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair

[00:01:35] For a single Armadillo you will own

[00:01:38] On Salisbury plain on summer is comparatively rare

[00:01:43] And a pair of them is practically unknown

[00:01:46] Drawn by that mellow solo

[00:01:49] There I followed on my bike

[00:01:51] To discover what these Armadillo

[00:01:53] Lovers would be like:

[00:01:57] 'Oh my darling Armadillo

[00:02:01] How delightful it would be

[00:02:03] If for us those silver wedding bells would chime

[00:02:08] Let the orange blossoms billow

[00:02:10] You need only say 'I will'-oh

[00:02:14] Be my darling Armadillo all the time '

[00:02:18] Then I saw them in a hollow by a yellow muddy bank -

[00:02:23] An Armadillo singing to an armour-plated tank

[00:02:34] Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above

[00:02:39] This - abandoned on manoeuvres - is the object of your love

[00:02:50] I left him to his singing

[00:02:52] Cycled home without a pause

[00:02:55] Never tell a man the truth

[00:02:58] About the one that he adores

[00:03:04] On the breeze that follows sunset

[00:03:07] I could hear that sad refrain

[00:03:10] Singing willow willow willow down the way;

[00:03:15] And I seemed to hear it still Oh

[00:03:19] Vive L'amore vive l'Armadillo

[00:03:22] 'Be my darling Armadillo all the day

[00:03:28] Be my darling Armadillo all the day '