Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until just
Gambling was to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Wilson Phillips, evil

(Mike)
But is changing fast
it up at last legally

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
Casinos open to raise for social needs

(Jian)
Full of wheels,
Black jack and slot machines.

(All)
Now guys like Cedric perform deeds.

(Jian)
I've been up my welfare
Just to throw the dice on the greens.

(Mike)
Money made by dealing
Goes to healing folks 'cross the land

(Jian)
I stand and gush.

(Mike)
Casinos are a ministry governmentally
your hand.

(Jian)
I almost had a flush.

(All)
Since Cedric spent his dime on 15 to 2.

(Jian)
I put my chips on 32 red it went to instead.

(All)
Guys like Cedric are pulling through.

(Jian)
Now they're me to leave,
And I'm poor and I'm peeved so I might heave.

(Mike)
So he the house and he traded the kids
And he studied the and he practiced the bids.
The he ran to province door to his
casinos were a brand new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new luck at blackjack brought him such wealth
realized he'd make a perfect Minister of Health.

(Mike)
Now he's wearing all the
Hanging out with bureaucrats at joints.
(Jian)
He's a money sponge.

(Mike)
him place another bet
We go deeper into debt losing
(Jian)
And credit ratings

(Jian)
We've made a virtue of that used to be vice:
(All)
tax on corporations, gambling donations pay the bills.
(Jian)
Now gambling addicts are servants with dice:
(All)
Selling health to the hopeless, pocketing the profits, our ills.

(All)
Our service is getting nervous
As hands it to one-armed bandits.
hell for purists but swell for tourists so yeah!

From the
1992- Originally written as a musical discussion of the around the
of gambling in Canada, this piece was commissioned and performed in
'92
for CBC's national television newsmagazine The Journal. then,

F. has been with many celebrities (including T.V.'s Bob Denver) at

casinos.