Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up just recently
was thought to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Wilson Phillips, stuff

(Mike)
But Canada is fast
Loosening it up at legally

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
open to raise funds for social needs

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

(All)
Now guys like Cedric benevolent deeds.

(Jian)
been saving up my welfare
Just to throw the dice on the greens.

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

(Jian)
I and proudly gush.

(Mike)
Casinos are a ministry governmentally
your hand.

(Jian)
I had a royal flush.

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

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

(All)
Guys Cedric are pulling Medicaire through.

(Jian)
Now asking me to leave,
And I'm and I'm peeved so I just might heave.

(Mike)
So he mortgaged the house and he the kids
And he studied the odds and he the bids.
The he ran to province next to his
Where were a brand new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new found at blackjack brought him such wealth
They realized make a perfect Minister of Health.

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

(Mike)
him place another bet
We go into debt losing points
(Jian)
And credit plunge

(Jian)
made a virtue of that which used to be vice:
(All)
Lower tax on corporations, gambling pay the bills.
(Jian)
Now gambling are civil servants with dice:
(All)
Selling to the hopeless, pocketing the profits, curing our ills.

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

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

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

casinos.