Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until recently
Gambling was thought to be

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Wilson Phillips, stuff

(Mike)
But is changing fast
Loosening it up at legally

(Jian)
The new narcotic, a puff.

(All)
open to raise funds for social needs

(Jian)
Full of wheels,
Black jack and slot 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 made by folks
Goes to helping healing '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 chips on 32 red it went to instead.

(All)
Guys like Cedric are 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 house and he the kids
And he the odds and he practiced the bids.
The he ran to next door to his
Where casinos were a brand new biz.
(All)
His new found luck at blackjack him such wealth
They realized make a perfect Minister of Health.

(Mike)
Now wearing all the hats
Hanging out with at bookie joints.
(Jian)
a public money sponge.

(Mike)
Watch him another bet
We go deeper debt losing points
(Jian)
And credit plunge

(Jian)
We've made a of that which used to be vice:
(All)
Lower tax on corporations, donations pay the bills.
(Jian)
Now gambling are civil servants with dice:
(All)
Selling 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!

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 television newsmagazine The Journal. then,

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

casinos.