Traditional
Listen to it: Strangers at the Gate, Guilt, Angst & Fairy Tales (live)
Watch it: Arisia 2011, Susan’s Going-Away Party, End of Summer 2010
For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand miles I’d travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel
Chorus:
Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys
Bedlam boys are bonnie,
For they all go bare and they live by the air
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
Chorus
Me staff has murdered giants
And me bag a long knife carries
For to cut mince pies from children’s thighs
With which to feed the fairies
Chorus
Optional verse, which we only started doing at Arisia 2012:
The spirits, white as lightning
Will on me travels guide me
The moon will quake and the stars will shake
Whenever they espied me
Chorus
For to see mad Tom of Bedlam
Ten thousand years I’d travel
Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes
For to save her shoes from gravel