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Our take on the traditional tune.

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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
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
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

There I picked up a cauldron
Where I boiled ten thousand harlots
Tho full of flame I drank the same
To the health all such farlots
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

This spirit's white as lightning
Would on me travels guide me
The moon would quake and the stars would shake
When ever they espied me
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

No gypsy slut nor dark sea
Shall win my matom from me
I’ll weep all night with stars I’ll fight
The fray shall well become me
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

So drink to Tom of Bedlam
Go fill the season barrels
I’ll drink it all well brewed with bull
Maudlin drunk ‘Ill quarrel
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

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from Golden Strings to Tether the Sun, released September 26, 2020
Kim Guy: Vocals, Guitar.
Stephen: All other instrumentation. Mixing. Production.

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The Rowan Amber Mill Devon, UK

Since 2007 The Rowan Amber Mill have been purveyors of Woodland Folkadelica/alt-Folk. Releases include: "folk devils & moral panics", "midsummers" and "Heartwood". The Book of the Lost (with Emily Jones). Silent Night Songs (with Angeline Morrison).The folk horror collection Harvest the Ears. The synth album Follows Shortly (as Making Tea For Robots). They are half of Rowan:Morrison. ... more

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