Sailor's Hornpipe(Viv Stanshall Version) - Mike Oldfield

作词：Viv Stanshall

作曲：Viv Stanshall

The hallway

From outside

An ordinary house

A great house true

Four hundred and eighty three rooms

Each one with it's own

Marble wash basin and douche

Bidet as it may

But inside and the positions are reversed

A human failing

Some say a disease

But a disease that Sir Francis Dashwood

Knew and knew it well

Upstairs inside

And a revelation

It's a discotheque

No no uh there are paintings

Real

And look here

A rare seventeenth century masterpiece

And if I can scrape a little of it off

Beneath I can find hidden

A fourteenth century

Underpiece

Made entirely of tirely piece of eggshells

This

Lurid work

Has caused controversy in the world

Of embroidery

And anthropologicky

No I'll say it again anthropolology

Umm no quite possibly make an anthropol

No uh I mean an apologph

It has

Enthralled distinguished

Professors

And in layman's language

Is blinking well baffling

But to be more obtusely

Buggered if I know

Yes buggered if I know

And that's all we've gleaned so far from experts

In fourteenth century painting

Renaissance greengrocers

And recently revived members of the public

Buggered if I know

Live you in central

About three a talking in the morning

Oxes child

Nineteen seventeen three

Good night