Name: Lily the Pink 2
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Channel: words and music Traditional
Description: License options are available for this song. Originally recorded for Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales. Andrew grew up listening to an Irish Rovers recording of 'Lily the Pink.' Last year, we added the song to our repetoire. It's now one of our catchiest new songs. It's about as popular as Mrs. Ly

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Originally recorded for Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales. Andrew grew up listening to an Irish Rovers recording of 'Lily the Pink.' Last year, we added the song to our repetoire. It's now one of our catchiest new songs. It's about as popular as Mrs. Ly

mandolin autoharp recorde

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Brobdingnagian Bards

The Original Celtic Renaissance duo from Austin, TX! Called Masters of Traditional Folk by The Austin Chronicle, Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee join the autoharp, r

We are the Brobdingnagian Bards (pronounced brAHb'ding-näg-EE-en). We perform a unique style of Celtic folk music that we like to call "a Renaissance in Celtic music" or "The Original Celtic Renaissance. Ask our fans though, and they'll tell you our music is just plain "fun!" With six studio albums completed in just five years, combined with ten other compilations, singles and EPs, we've been called one of the most-productive Celtic groups around. But we just love playing the music.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Celtic

Charts

Peak #127

Peak in subgenre #7

Author

words and music Traditional

Rights

Gunn-McKee

Uploaded

October 27, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:30

Lyrics

Here's a story, a little bit gory,
A little bit happy, a little bit sad,
Of Lily the Pink and her medicinal compound,
And how it slowly drove her to the bad.

Meet Ebenezer, thought he was Julius Caesar.
So they put him in a home.
And then they gave him medicinal compound,
And now he's Emporer of Rome.

    We'll drink a drink a drink
    To Lily the pink the pink the pink
    The savior of [the savior of] the human race.
    She invented medicinal compound.
    Most efficacious in every case.

Meet Johnny Hammer had a t-t-terrible s-s-stammer.
He could b-barely say a word.
So they gave him medicinal compound,
And now he's seen, but never heard.

And Freddie Clinger, the opera singer,
Who could break glasses with his voice they said.
So on his tonsils he rubbed medicinal compound,
And now they break glasses over his head.

And Mr. Frears, who had sticky out ears.
And it made him awful shy.
So they gave him medicinal compound,
And now he's learning how to fly.

And Uncle Paul, he was very small. He
Was the shortest man in town.
So on his body he rubbed medicinal compound,
And now he's six foot, but it's underground.

Lily died and went up to heaven.
Oh, the church bells they did ring.
She took with her medicinal compound.
Hark the herald angels sing.