He
used to work here in the garden
but he don’t no more
spellbound by his posies
he caress them on the greenhouse floor
She
was a lady on the outside
such an alien fine little heap
with a lowball cocker spaniel/Spaniard
that we all ignored
[Chorus:]
Mr. Sam do not look so good no more.
I have never seen him cry out loud before
One
lovely evening left abandoned
by the little china man
She on the rebound, she amazed him
with her sleight-of-hand (tricks)
smoking frequent opium, wild gambling
all the signs of a lifetime of leisure
with no worries, every details
so precisely planned
[Chorus]
Long
past the midnight in the half-light
just before the dawn
Broken sorry animal, by the greenhouse
on the southeast lawn
standing almost - human crying beast
In the screams we heard- and are told
by a neighbor
he was waken, by his tuneless song
[Chorus]
(transcribed
by Kasper Gynther)
