Punchnjudy Lyrics by John Wesley Harding

Punchnjudy Lyrics

    (an outtake that will surface somewhere, at some point...)

    The beadle says i killed them all
    My wife, my screaming child
    I'm dying in the morning
    And they wonder why i smile
    So i'll sit and write my memoirs
    Of a life upon the stage
    And hope to die of middle age

    Jim crow the abyssinian
    Has sung his final song
    The grand turk of senoa
    Always gets his english wrong
    He could just say "shallaballa"
    But he'd say that word three times
    And nobody knows my crimes

    They'll say that i'm an outlaw
    But i tell you, that i'm your friend
    You know i'm only in for
    Punching judy again

    The radical gentleman
    Complained about my bell
    I said it was an organ
    And i rang that thing like hell
    The objector backed me up on
    Any name i said it is
    And guess which one of them will live

    While riding on my hobby horse
    I was overthrown
    To the doctor i was sent
    To cure my broken bones
    He beat me without reason
    Til i had to give to him
    A taste of his own medicine

    They'll say that i'm an outlaw
    But i tell you, that i'm your friend
    You know i'm only in for
    Punching judy again

    The executioner arrives
    Jack ketch is that man's name
    He thinks he's gonna hang me
    But he doesn't know my game
    I can't get my head into his noose
    He's gonna show me how
    And i'm gonna hang him now

    I'm ready for the devil
    And i see that he's appeared
    Like mr.faust before me
    I will pull old satan's beard
    So for toby my old terrier
    And everyone of you
    I'm gonna kill him too

    They'll say that i'm an outlaw
    But i tell you, that i'm your friend
    You know i'm only in for
    Punching judy again

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