Testo Ball of Kirriemuir - Jim Croce
Testo della canzone Ball of Kirriemuir (Jim Croce), tratta dall'album Live: The Final Tour
This is a song that has to do with culture
And I don't, uh, I call it a culture
So I learned it on a cultural exchange tour
I was over in, uh, Nigeria and the Middle East across North Africa
Playing on a State Department tour
Seeing how many diseases an American can get
Uh, I came back with a whole bunch
They shipped me home in a big fifty
Gallon drum with an adult-sized Pamper
Uh, local medicine called "Liquid Cork"
Which is good for the amebic stuff that you pick up
It's a really great, great feeling
Went to a friend of mine who was a doctor when I came back
And gave me all these tests and just said "Oh wow"
Looking in a microscope, like a walking culture dish
But I learned this song that was written down by Robert Burns
About two hundred and fifty years ago or so
It's a great song for images
And I have to wrap it in a cloak of culture
Or sometimes I can get in a jam with it
But you don't stand behind me, I hope
Uh, it's, it's a story about a party they had in Scotland
Back in the days when they pulled up the drawbridge
Everybody that was cool was inside
So they didn't have to worry about the man coming, see?
Plus the moat was just a big septic tank anyhow
Full of dead swans, they were all floating around
Had to change the swans all the time
But what happened at this party is a true story
Somebody threw
See in those days the girls wore long dresses
Remember those big long billowy skirts
And ken underwear
That's the Scot saying for "no underwear"
See how cultured it's getting already
Feels just like a big English lit class, mhm, hm
Now what happens is somebody throws these rosehip seeds on the ground
Now rosehips, you know
If you're into organic food and vitamins
Rosehips are a very good natural source of vitamin C
But the seeds have hair on them, like little bristles
And the girls, in the frivolity and briskness of the dance
Frisking, kick the seeds up under the dress
And started this terrible itch
Now somebody also dumped some aphrodisiac into the punch
And about a half an hour later
Everybody's giving each other that lean and hungry look
You know, that lewd and lascivious, trying to get some
Gonna think about it for a while
And you're gonna be the recipient of my long-anticipated glee
Uh, but what happened, somebody put the oil lamp out
And as this old Scot told me
And is recorded in the Library of Congress
"What happened then, lad, was an orgy of such great magnitude
That forty acres of corn were fucked completely flat"
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Writer(s): Jim Croce
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