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You'll find the strength to leave. I don't mind, lay me down like a stone.

from The Ballad of Harry Lanier by Wunderbar!

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"You'll find the strength to leave. I don't mind, lay me down like a stone" samples elements of "Have You News Of My Boy Jack?" a poem written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling and performed as a song by Louis Kirkby-Lunn in 1917.

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5. You'll find the strength to leave
I don't mind
Lay me down like a stone
And rub out this day

"Has any one else had word of him?"
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

Wave the smoke from my eyes
Finish my drink, chew the ice
Marching lies to the wall
There we'll go
Swallowing earth

Woke to the wall's soft breathing
Pulled blankets onto the floor
Your friend's on the phone
and he's screaming
"Hello, I'll ruin your life!"
I've ruined my own

What do we do with a drunken sailor
early in the morning?

Out on the poopdeck
I'm spewing up spunk
When a sock full of birdshot
Comes down with a thunk
on the back of my neck
I'm over the side
Gagging down bilge
As the last only light
in the world sails on
Flickers than fades
And everything else
Is just wave after wave
after wave
wave

The wind's screaming banshees
So no one takes note
of the man overboard
with no wing and no hope
no hope
no hope

What do we do with a drunken sailor
in the morning?

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from The Ballad of Harry Lanier, released October 10, 2008

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Wunderbar! 松山市, Japan

"Steam powered fantasia with a touch of the wild, wild west and one of a kind mechanical instruments. If Melies had been a songwriter instead of film director, his music would probably have sounded something like this."

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