Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up just recently
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)
Casinos to raise funds for social needs

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

(All)
Now guys Cedric perform benevolent deeds.

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

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

(Jian)
I stand and gush.

(Mike)
Casinos are a handled governmentally
your hand.

(Jian)
I almost had a flush.

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

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

(All)
like Cedric 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 the house and he traded the kids
And he studied the odds and he the bids.
The he ran to province door to his
casinos were a brand new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new found at blackjack brought him such wealth
They realized he'd make a Minister of Health.

(Mike)
Now wearing all the hats
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 plunge

(Jian)
We've made a virtue of that which used to be
(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 Cedric it to one-armed bandits.
It's hell for purists but swell for so yeah!

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

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

casinos.