Jas Marlin, Singer Songwriter

I've been looking for this. so here it is. so that I always have it. awesome ballad.

http://www.travellersunion.org/music/bedlamBoys.html

This can also be done in D minor by replacing the D major chords with D minor and the F#m with an F major chord

D C

For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam D C D Ten thousand miles I’ve traveled D C Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes D C D For to save her shoes from gravel. Chorus: D F#m C Still I sing bonny boys, bonny mad boys D C D Bedlam boys are bonny D C For they all go bare and they live by the air D C D And they want no drink nor money. 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 And there I took up cauldren Where boiled ten thousand harlets Though full of flame I drank the same To the health of all such varlets My staff has murdered giants My bag a long knife carries For to cut mince pies from children's thighs And feed them to the fairies The spirits white as lightening Would on me travels guide me The stars would shake And the moon would quake Whenever they espied me And when that I'll be murdering The Man in the Moon to the powder His staff I'll break, his dog I'll shake And there'll howl no demon louder No gypsy, slut or doxy Shall win my mad Tom from me I'll weep all night, with stars I'll fight The fray shall well become me So drink to tom o’bedlam Go fill the seas in barrels I’ll drink it all well brewed with gall And maudlin drunk we’ll quarell For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam Ten thousand years I have traveled Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes For to save her shoes from gravel. Additional lyrics: Now I repent that ever Poor Tom was so Disdain'd My wits were lost when him I cross't Which makes me go thus chain'd My horn is made of thunder I stole it out of heaven The rainbow there is this I wear For which I thence was driven And now that I have gotten A lease than doomsday longer To live on earth with some in mirth Ten whales shall ease my hunger