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The song that Sir Lancelot sings

posted 17 years ago by bgh48
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Can someone supply the lyrics?

There was a family
That Lived on the Isle of Saint Sebastian
A long, long while
The Head of the family was a Holland Man
And the Younger brother
His name was Rand
Ah, woe, ah, me
Shame and Sorrorw for the family
The Holland Man, he kept in a tower
A wife as Pretty as a big, white flower
she saw the brother
and she stole his heart
And that's how the badness
and the trouble start
Ah, woe, ah, me
Shame and Sorrow for the family
The wife and the brother, they want to go
But the Holland man, he tell them no
The wife fall down and the evil came
And it burned her mind in the fever flame
Ah,woe, ah, me
Shame and Sorrow for the family
Her eyes are empty and she cannot talk
And a nurse has come to make her walk
The Brothers are lonely
and the nurse is young
And now you must see
that my song is sung
Ah, woe, ah, me
Shame and Sorrorw for the family
Ah, woe, ah, me
Shame and Sorrorw for the family

[–] bgh48 17 years ago

Thank you so very much, Evansharkfan! I am very appreciative.

[–] Wearly 17 years ago

Sir Lancelot's singing is my favorite thing about this movie.

[–] Strong_Style 14 years ago

Me too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mna6IdRKRqA

It's a mad house, this modern life.
It's a mad house, my faithless bride.

[–] joshewah78 17 years ago

I love the line "it burned her mind in the fever flame", which I find pretty artful and genuinely creepy.

[–] deadpan_diva 17 years ago

I am printing this off for my mother. She will be thrilled. I may have to hear her sing it 100 times though.

"One road is paved in gold One road is just a road."
---Patti Smith

[–] Prof_Lostiswitz 15 years ago

I like the way he handled the last verse - very sinister and menacing. He holds his guitar like a machine-gun.

[–] moundshroud 14 years ago

I like the way he handled the last verse - very sinister and menacing.

Especially in light of his very formal earlier apology. With Wes passed out from the booze, I think he may have perhaps felt it necessary to finish the song for Betsy, so she would be warned of the whole tragic story behind the Holland family.

BTW, Sir Lancelot's version of "Scandal in the Family" is available through iTunes. It's a more upbeat version than what appears in the movie, but worth the download to hear the song in its entirety.

[–] MystMoonstruck 13 years ago

You've received the lyrics already. I thought you might like to watch this parody performed by Captain USA and friends. It incorporates clips from "I Walked" and "White Zombie":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoe8dBByaw&feature=related
I hope everyone finds this as funny as I always have.

Of course, I love Sir Lancelot and his musical contributions to this film, "The Curse of the Cat People" and other films. I was delighted to hear him in "Brute Force" (1947), which I had somehow missed for the past six decades. He gets to sing several "instant rhymes".

~~MystMoonstruck~~