When You Play the Violin-The Gothic Archies

[00:05.12]I have known little civility, sir [00:12.88]Few have been kind, fewer truthful [00:19.15]And though within my ability, sir [00:25.79]I remain dutifully youthful [00:31.71]I go gray, then bald, with chagrin [00:37.77]When you play the violin [00:42.32]How I pray for death to begin [00:47.57]When you play the violin [00:53.78]True, there's been trouble and trickery, sir [01:03.95]Trembling and tribulations [01:10.78]Twitches from switches of hickory, sir [01:17.37]You, sir, and your usurpation [01:23.55]But my patience wears very thin [01:29.87]When you play the violin [01:34.76]How I stay, I can't imagine [01:39.62]When you play the violin [01:47.57]I've endured struggling and thuggery, sir [01:56.71]Physical ed. and psychosis [02:06.64]Sculleries, skulls, and skullduggeries, sir [02:16.16]Haplessness, hype and hypnosis [02:22.65]But, oy vey! The horrible din [02:27.14]When you play the violin [02:31.78]You betray an ear made of tin [02:36.64]When you play, when you slay the violin