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The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Garfield El
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Wayward Granddaughter
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The Fiery Furnaces - 1917
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The Fiery Furnaces - A Candymaker's Knife In My Handbag
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The Fiery Furnaces - Asthma Attack
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The Fiery Furnaces - Automatic Husband
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The Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbor Blues
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The Fiery Furnaces - Birdie Brain
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The Fiery Furnaces - Black-hearted Boy
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The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
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The Fiery Furnaces - Borneo
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The Fiery Furnaces - Bow Wow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Bright Blue Tie
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cabaret Of The Seven Devils
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The Fiery Furnaces - Charmaine Champagne
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The Fiery Furnaces - Chief Inspector Blancheflower
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The Fiery Furnaces - Chris Michaels
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The Fiery Furnaces - Clear signal from cairo
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cousin Chris
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The Fiery Furnaces - Crystal Clear
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cups & Punches
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The Fiery Furnaces - Cut The Cake
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The Fiery Furnaces - Does It Remind You Of When
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The Fiery Furnaces - Don't Dance Her Down
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The Fiery Furnaces - Drive To Dallas
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The Fiery Furnaces - Duffer St. George
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The Fiery Furnaces - Duplexes Of The Dead
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The Fiery Furnaces - Even In The Rain
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The Fiery Furnaces - Evergreen
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The Fiery Furnaces - Ex-Guru
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The Fiery Furnaces - Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Second Street
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The Fiery Furnaces - Gale Blow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Guns Under The Counter
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The Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes The Summer
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Gonna Run
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The Fiery Furnaces - I'm In No Mood
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The Fiery Furnaces - In My Little Thatched Hut
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The Fiery Furnaces - Inca Rag / Name Game
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The Fiery Furnaces - Japanese Slippers
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The Fiery Furnaces - Keep Me In The Dark
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The Fiery Furnaces - Leaky Tunnel
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The Fiery Furnaces - Lost At Sea
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The Fiery Furnaces - Mason City
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The Fiery Furnaces - My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found
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The Fiery Furnaces - My Egyptian Grammar
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The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse
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The Fiery Furnaces - Nevers
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The Fiery Furnaces - Oh Sweet Woods
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The Fiery Furnaces - Paw Paw Tree
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The Fiery Furnaces - Police Sweater Blood Vow
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The Fiery Furnaces - Pricked In The Heart
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The Fiery Furnaces - Quay Cur
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The Fiery Furnaces - Ray Bouvier
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The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir
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The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer
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The Fiery Furnaces - Right By Conquest
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The Fiery Furnaces - Rub-Alcohol Blues
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The Fiery Furnaces - Seven Silver Curses
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sing for Me
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The Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
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The Fiery Furnaces - Slavin' Away
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The Fiery Furnaces - Smelling Cigarettes
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The Fiery Furnaces - South Is Only A Home
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The Fiery Furnaces - Spaniolated
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The Fiery Furnaces - Staring At The Steeple
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The Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sullivan's Social Slub
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The Fiery Furnaces - Sweet Spots
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The Fiery Furnaces - Take Me Round Again
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The Fiery Furnaces - Teach Me Sweetheart
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The Fiery Furnaces - The End Is Near
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Old Hag Is Sleeping
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Philadelphia Grand Jury
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The Fiery Furnaces - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
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The Fiery Furnaces - Though Let's Be Fair
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The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
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The Fiery Furnaces - Turning Round
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The Fiery Furnaces - Two Fat Feet
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The Fiery Furnaces - Up In The North
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The Fiery Furnaces - Waiting to Know You
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The Fiery Furnaces - We Got Back The Plague
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The Fiery Furnaces - We Wrote Letters Everyday
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The Fiery Furnaces - Whistle Rhapsody?
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The Fiery Furnaces - Wicker Whatnots
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The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
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The Fiery Furnaces - Wolf Notes
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The Fiery Furnaces - Worry Worry
Quay Cur
The Fiery Furnaces
Given to me so to keep me out of harm.
Canvasing the quayside trying to earn my keep,
A killick tore it off my neck and threw it in the deep.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
Up to the quarentine, late night aboard,
Try to raise our fees but we get what they afford.
Busy work below deck according to form;
Waiting for the clear to leave but then comes up a storm.
We hid beneath the barrels of blubber hoping that the rain had passed
But when the wind kept up the rats cut down the rigging off the mast
And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea we're cast.
The clouds dried and cracked
It was calm in fact
The ship had been towed,
By sea Dyaks towed
So we're sold Kolaba
'n sent -- I let out a sob, a
cry oh no it's disaster -- T-Ranter Bay Madacascar.
Great gulps of Greek fire get us in;
Sling sticks at the stockade Fort Dauphin;
A guardsman gave a griffin said grease my duke:
Down by the chimney and out through the fluke.
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Course it wasn't long till I caught the croup,
Dawding on the drizzy deck of my majesty's sloop.
If only the hlmsman would turn from his whip staff
With my azimuth compass I'd go by the hectograph
Up to the whaling fleet in Gilbert sound
Then back in the hull when we come around
With 100 seals and 2 polar bears
Nearly in the harbor without any cares,
But then:
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Half hour sandglass
Seven saker round shot
Ice for the moonshine
And chichsaneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
Look awennye
Get out my sawygmeg
Yliaout, yliaout
Weave us on shore
Unuiche quoysah
Maconmeg
And I gave a sasobneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
And now we live by muskles, water weeds with small relief in store
And all the sick men in the Galean were then put upon the shore
And on the 22nd we didn't see our general any more.
Down came our trestle-trees, no pitch tar or nails;
Fore shrouds break no rope we trust;
Only shift of sails.
Drink my Rosa Solis; struck suddenly ahull
Yield ourselves we spoomed, my sinews stiff,
My eyes were dull.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
And as we pass the equinoctial only 5 of us could stand
And while the capsten without sheets or tacks by all of us was manned
And on the 11th day of June ran in at Barehaven to land.