Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until recently
Gambling was to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Phillips, evil stuff

(Mike)
But Canada is changing
Loosening it up at last

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
Casinos open to raise for social needs

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

(All)
Now guys like perform benevolent deeds.

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

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

(Jian)
I and proudly gush.

(Mike)
Casinos are a ministry governmentally
Show hand.

(Jian)
I had a royal flush.

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

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

(All)
like Cedric are pulling Medicaire through.

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

(Mike)
So he mortgaged the and he traded 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 luck at blackjack him such wealth
They realized he'd a perfect Minister of Health.

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

(Mike)
Watch him place bet
We go deeper into losing points
(Jian)
And credit plunge

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

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

From the
1992- written as a musical discussion of the issues 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 spotted with celebrities (including T.V.'s Bob Denver) at

casinos.