Right By Conquest

Lyrics

If you wish to wait until dusk I respect your policy
 But by all means, my liege, lay siege, lay siege
 Or whatever otherwise you might want to call it
 We would only be restoring to the rightful from before the migrations of the peoples
 You could put it
 Or, and I'd prefer, Right by Conquest
 Are the defenses, then, to be let down tonight?
 Yes, or maybe, or not quite?
 Just a rickety old stockade, I heard
 Half diorama plaster and half recovered water-damaged sheet-rock
 In which is interred
 It's all that stands in your way, if 'stands' is the right word
 What will you do?
 Carried off to decorate your bordello
 The person who told me believes
 That the guard, though formerly in the service of Duchess of Kent
 Is an Italian Greyhound bitch that loves thieves
 So you might sing
 "Well Rebecca, get your basket, let's go down to the wood
 You might not pick any berries but you'll come back feeling good"
 Well, all right
 If you wish to wait until dusk I respect your policy
 But by all means, my liege, lay siege, lay siege
 Or whatever otherwise you might want to call it
 We would only be restoring to the rightful from before the migrations of the peoples
 You could put it
 Or, and I'd prefer, Right by Conquest
 Are the defenses, then, to be let down tonight?
 Yes, maybe, or not quite?
 Will you quench these blushes of mine by present practice?
 Will you, being invited, crack this Glass?
 Here's poison and here's gold
 Quick children! Before you get old
 Well Rebecca, get your basket, let's go down to the wood,
 You might not pick any berries but you'll come back feeling good
 Well Rebecca, get your basket, let's go down to the wood,
 You might not pick any berries but you'll come back feeling good

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Duration
03:36
Key
7
Tempo
144 BPM

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