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 fast
Loosening it up at legally

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
Casinos open to raise for social needs

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

(All)
Now guys like perform benevolent deeds.

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

(Mike)
Money made by folks
Goes to helping healing folks 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 are pulling Medicaire through.

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

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

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

(Mike)
Watch him place bet
We go into debt losing points
(Jian)
And ratings 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)
health to the hopeless, pocketing the profits, curing our ills.

(All)
Our social service is nervous
As hands it to one-armed 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, piece was commissioned and performed in
'92
for national television newsmagazine The Journal. Since then,

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

casinos.