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BEDLAM BELLS -Joe Bethancourt

(Tune: "Mad Maudlin" aka "Tom O'Bedlam") Written as a theme song for the Bedlam Bells Morris dance troupe, and originally improvised at WesterCon 45, Phoenix, AZ. Tune guitar: DADGBD

Out upon the Borderlands

I've watched the stars a-falling

I've drunk deep from Mad River and

I've heard my soul a-calling CHORUS: Still I sing bonny bells, bonny mad bells,

Bedlam Bells are bonny!

For we all go bare and we live by the air

And we want your drink and money! I now repent that ever My staff hath murder'd giants Myself was so disdain-ed My bells can call the thunder! My wits are lost since me I cros't I stamp my feet and tread the dance Which makes me go thus chain-ed And split the sky in sunder! To find our wits in Bordertown, My horn is made of Elven-blades, Ten thousand years we'll travel I stole it cross the Border! And maudlin go on dancing toes, The rainbow there is this I wear To save our shoes from gravel For my wits are out of order! I crossed into fair Elfland I went to Digger's Kitchen To find the soul I'd squandered To beg some food one morning To hunt my sighs in children's eyes I got my dreams served piping hot But still my soul had wandered And saw a city burning I had an Elfin lady, I'll wander thru the Borderlands And took her for to wife me With feathers in my hair-o She sleeps the day, she sings the night With my true love close to my side And hearkens to delight me! And back and sides go bare-o! Both in and out of Bordertown I'll dance the day, I'll dance the night I've drank Mad River's water And spend my time a-singing And stood upon the Bridge O'Dread Dance out the old, ring in the new And watched the sudden slaughter! With Bedlam Bells a-ringing!

Take a drink for Tom of Bedlam

Take a drink from the river's water!

And speak in sighs from darkened eyes

And court the River's daughter! *

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