Great song and performance...a YouTube recording on Later with Jools Holland
is floating around...
Bully Boys
By The Tiger Lillies
‘Bully
Boys’ by The Tiger Lillies, from the CD ‘Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera’
(1999), a play adapted from a series of 19th Century German Short Stories: “a
stage production based on the 1850s book Struwwelpeter,
a collection of macabre cautionary tales written by Heinrich Hoffmann, a
psychiatrist frustrated with the era's boring children's stories. Similar to
Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, in
Struwwelpeter, rude, disobedient, and
dirty children meet gruesome ends...the manic oompah of ‘Bully Boys,’ about a
trio of kids who meet their end after annoying the neighbourhood giant.” (www.answers.com/topic/shockheaded-peter-a-junk-opera).
Well
as he'd often done before
My
neighbour from next door
One
fine summer's day went out
To
the shops to walk about
And
as he found it hot poor fella,
He
took with him his green umbrella.
When
Edward, noisy little wag,
He
came out, and waved his flag.
And
William came in, jacket trim,
And
brought his wooden hoop with him.
And
Arthur brought his toys,
And
joined the other bully boys.
Well,
those silly bully boys,
They've
lost all their toys.
Well,
tall Agrippa lives close by,
So
tall he almost touch'd the sky.
He
was a giant through and through,
He
was a giant through and through
He
called out in an angry tone,
To
leave my neighbour alone.
But
they didn't mind a bit,
What
tall Agrippa said of it.
Well,
those silly bully boys,
They've
lost more than their toys.
Well,
tall Agrippa foams with rage,
Just
look at him on this very page
He
seizes Arthur, seizes Ned.
He
smashes all their tiny heads
Then
they don't scream and they don't call
They
are all corpses one and all
Three
little corpses, one, two, three
They
are all as dead as can be
Well,
those silly bully boys,
They've
lost more than their toys.
Well,
those silly bully boys,
Because
Agrippa they annoyed
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