Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until just
Gambling was thought to be

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Wilson Phillips, evil

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

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
open to raise funds for social needs

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

(All)
Now guys like Cedric perform deeds.

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

(Mike)
Money made by folks
Goes to 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 Cedric spent his dime on 15 to 2.

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

(All)
Guys like 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 the odds and he practiced the bids.
The he ran to province next to his
Where casinos were a brand new biz.
(All)
His new found luck at blackjack brought him 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 deeper into debt points
(Jian)
And credit ratings

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

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

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

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

casinos.