Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until recently
was thought to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Phillips, evil stuff

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

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
Casinos open to raise for social needs

(Jian)
of roulette wheels,
Black jack and video machines.

(All)
Now guys like perform benevolent deeds.

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

(Mike)
made by dealing folks
Goes to helping 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 last 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 next door to his
Where were a brand new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new luck at blackjack brought him such wealth
They realized he'd make a Minister of Health.

(Mike)
Now wearing all the hats
Hanging out bureaucrats at bookie joints.
(Jian)
a public money sponge.

(Mike)
Watch him place 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, donations pay the bills.
(Jian)
Now gambling addicts are civil servants with
(All)
Selling to the hopeless, pocketing the profits, curing our ills.

(All)
Our social service is nervous
As Cedric hands it to bandits.
It's hell for but swell for tourists so yeah!

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

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

casinos.