Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until just
was thought to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Wilson Phillips, 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)
Full of wheels,
Black jack and video machines.

(All)
Now like Cedric perform benevolent deeds.

(Jian)
I've been 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)
are a ministry handled governmentally
Show hand.

(Jian)
I had a royal flush.

(All)
Since Cedric his last 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 they're me to leave,
And I'm and I'm peeved so I just 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 province next to his
Where casinos were a new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new luck at blackjack brought him such wealth
They he'd make a perfect Minister of Health.

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

(Mike)
Watch him place bet
We go deeper into debt points
(Jian)
And credit ratings

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

(All)
Our social service is getting
As Cedric it to one-armed bandits.
It's for purists but swell for tourists so yeah!

From the
1992- Originally as a musical discussion of the issues around the
legalization of gambling in Canada, this 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.