Luyện nghe bài hát The Ballad of Cedric Früvous

(Mike)
Up until just
was thought to be blasphemy

(Jian, as Cedric)
Like Phillips, evil 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 saving up my
Just to the dice on the velvet greens.

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

(Jian)
I and proudly gush.

(Mike)
are a ministry handled governmentally
Show 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 to black instead.

(All)
like Cedric 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 and he traded the kids
And he studied the odds and he the bids.
The he ran to next door to his
Where were a brand new flourishing biz.
(All)
His new found luck at blackjack brought him wealth
They he'd 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)
Watch him place bet
We go deeper into losing points
(Jian)
And credit ratings

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

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

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

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

casinos.