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The Original Message

Author: Dahal Devonshire, via the Goddess Luna
Place/Gathering Discovered: Chimeron, Black & White
Date: 1004
Transcribed by: Metron Dragonsvalley
Simply a song...

The Message
The original song with interpretation

For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I traveled
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
To save her shoes from gravel

Chorus:
Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys
Bedlam boys are bonny
For they all go bare and they live by the air
And they want no drink of money.

I know more then Apollo
For when he did lie sleeping
The fae doth fade to changeling blade
And the wounded land lay weeping

My staff has murdered giants
Me bag a long knife carries
To cut mince pie from children's thighs
With which to feed the fairies.

I went down to Satan’s kitchen
for to get me food one morning
And there i got souls piping hot
All on the spit a-turning.

By a knight of ghost and shadows
I summoned am to tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end-
Methinks it is no journey.

No demon, man, or faerie
Shall keep my mad Tom from me.
I’ll dance all night, with stars I’ll fight.
And the fray shall well become me.
The sprits white as lightning
Would on my travels guide me
The stay would shake and the moon would quake
Whenever the espied me.

And then that I’ll be murdering
The man in the moon to a powder
His staff I’ll break, his dog I’ll shake
And there’ll howl no demon louder.

From the hag and the hungry goblin
That into rage would rend ye.
All the sprites that stand by naked man
In the book of moons, defend ye.

With a host of furious faeries.
One fae he is commander.
With a burning spear and a shield of air
His men he will not squander.

That of you five sound sense
You never be forsaken
Nor wander from your selves with Tom
Or your soul it will be taken

I now regret that ever
Poor Tom i so disdain-ed
My wits are lost since him I crossed
And now I must go chained.
Created by Janna Oakfellow-Pushee at 01-18-22 00:54 AM
Last Modified by Janna Oakfellow-Pushee at 01-18-22 00:54 AM