The Moss Tabulatur von Cosmo Sheldrake (für Baryton)

[Verse]

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Legend has it that the moss grows on
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The north side of the trees
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Well, legend has it that when the rain comes down
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All the worms come up to breathe

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Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come
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All the plants, they eat them with their leaves
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Well, legend has it that the world spins round
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On an axis of 23 degrees

[Chorus]
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But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon?
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Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon
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Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune
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And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom

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Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few
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From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe
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Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup
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Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop


[Bridge]
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Now listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes
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Nobody knew and nobody knows
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How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes
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Or how the Dong came to own a luminous nose

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Or how the Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed
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And came to shore by the Chankly Bore where the Bong-trees grow
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Where the Jabberwocky’s small green tentacles do flow
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And the Quangle Wangle plays in the rain and the snow