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Thursday 7 March 2013

Bully Boys

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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