Текст песни: A Puppeteer Came Into Town + перевод

A puppeteer came into town

He set up his booth and the children they gathered

Around to hear stories of old Mister Punch

How the fox got away with the gamekeeper’s lunch

Of star-spangled lovers and hapless buffoons

How the cow jumped right over the silvery moon

And the shadows, they grew never longer

No the shadows came not through the door

And so who will come see my puppet show tonight

I have tramped many miles with my box of delights

With the curtains pulled back and the puppets revealed

We’ll give old Fortuna a crank of the wheel

With Bango, Beelzebub, Old Mister Punch,

I will jiggle the arcana round to my touch

Lest the shadows they grow ever longer

Lest the shadows they come through the door

Somebody threw the first stone

‘We don’t want your sort here, you’re causing a nuisance

Corrupting our children with stories and lies

This is not fiction, this is real life!

Pack up your puppets and get out of town'

And they rattled their pots and their pans as he ran

And the shadows they grew ever longer

Yes the shadows they came through the door

The puppeteer fled to the woods

Nursing his bruises, two rabbits a-roasting

When out of the gloom came a girl and a boy

Hungry for sorrow, ravenous for joy

Fire in their bellies and stars in their eyes

And the lines on the puppeteer’s face came alive

And the shadows they grew never longer, no no no

The shadows came not through the door

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