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A Pirate's "Special Friend"

from GurdyBird's GurdyWords & live tunes from 2016 by GurdyBird

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GurdyBird performs for her life in front of Madame Fandango, Father Augustus Priestly and Justice Socks, who are all pretty keen for some entertainment in the form of public execution. In a spot of bother, GurdyBird pulls a poem out of the box. Will it help her?

Recorded at Madame Fandango's Vertigo Vaudeville of which GurdyBird was a co-producer.

The whole ghastly trial can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtDj9ezRCu4

lyrics

GIRDYBIRD: My sets of songs of ill-repute were sometimes sung by bawds,
And if you liked you could drum along or even strum the chords.
From lowly jolly jack tars up to the House of Lords.
A pirate's "Special Friend" is one that we can all afford!

A pirate's "Special Friend", me boys is skilled beyond all measure.
They don't have to be decked in jewels to qualify as treasure!
Though, perhaps they are a little worn from going like a thresher,
They may be frayed, these lads and maids, who specialise in pleasure.

So what if they have lice or fleas or mites, or even rickets?
So what if they have tufts of hair in random growing thickets?
They have a queue a mile long, that now they must punch tickets!
Just exit past the gift shop run by quacks if you get sick. It's

A pirate's "Special Friend", the one who'll always lend an ear...
Providing it's not fallen off through syphallis, they'll hear.
You can cry upon their shoulders, their breasts or even rear
And they'll forward your concern via mucky nights with buccaneers

I'll end me poem now, before me rhymes get any sicker.
The quality is going down and me puns ain't getting slicker.
I'll have to do half rhymes and jokes about a doxie's knickers...

MME FANDANGO: Oh just stick to your cranking!

GURDYBIRD to FR. PRIESTLY: Said the actress to the vicar

credits

from GurdyBird's GurdyWords & live tunes from 2016, released December 13, 2016
Poem © 2016 by Tamsyn "GurdyBird" Swingler

Recorded at Madame Fandango's Vertigo Vaudeville, Sound Nightclub, Penzance 2016

Recorded by Roger Wallace and Paul Betowski

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Based in Cornwall, GurdyBird plays a Hurdy-Gurdy over her backing tracks which she performs, programmes and records herself, creating original compositions and unusual renditions of traditional folk tunes & shanties, performing with her music videos projected where possible for a multimedia, story-telling effect. She also roams acoustically at events, performs plugged & also dabbles in remixing. ... more

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