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Filk song written and performed by author, musician, and friend, David Butler

Bully That (A Song for Phineas Pimiscule)

© 2011 David John Butler

I like the fifty-seven El Dorado

A frock coat always makes the ladies smile

The monocle doesn’t make the desperado

But you must admit it adds a little style

The stakes are just as high as you could ask for

I’m sorry I ever got the boys involved

It’s the kind of dance you’ve got to wear a mask for

But a mystery’s just a riddle I haven’t solved

I’m master of the house and I’m the gardener

I helped the folk of Whimple dress their feet

Death takes us all, according to the Pardoner

Bully that, sometimes you’ve got to cheat

   I’m looking over Exile, and what’s that there I see?

   All of Legend’s Hunters, coming after me

   Traps and riddles, traps and riddles, lies and botany

   Who’s my friend and who’s my enemy?

My shimmering blade’s for fighting, not for eating

Though it’s cut up many a pie of potted meat

Bedlam thinks I’m dead, or else retreating

Bully that, sometimes you’ve got to cheat

I’ve stuffed Barrow Weed up both my nostrils

There’s a burner in the valley down below

A Harrow Knight and twelve Harrow Wight apostles

There’s Foxglove in my gun, I gotta go

   I’m looking over Exile, and what’s that there I see?

   All of Legend’s Hunters, coming after me

   Traps and riddles, traps and riddles, lies and botany

   Who’s my friend and who’s my enemy?

   Yeah, who’s my friend and who?