from the album HARD TIMES by the Red Clay Ramblers. Words by Mike Craver, melody based on Franz Schubert's "Freuden Sonder Zahl" (Seligkeit D. 433)-- scored for piano and vocal (soprano or tenor). Key of E Major, with chord symbols

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Joy and Bliss and Love come from Heaven above
Schnitzel and fillet mignon come from the animal kingdom
Byron and Shelley and Goethe were finishing up their Desserta
When the garcon came to reckon, Byron to Shelley did beckon
"You stall the waiter, I'll give the slip -- Goethe for certain will hide in the curtain
And think up a jolly good quip"

These Three Mousketeers thought it outre to travel about on the subway
Pedestrians get there too slowly and buses are common and lowly
They hailed down a nice yellow taxi, climbed grinning and gay in the backseat
The fare came to over a fiver, so they replied to the driver
"We have no money, we have no tip, sut we can see by the love in your eye
That you'll let us get by with a slip"

They snuck in one night to the Bijou drinking vodka and Milk of Magnesia
They littered the balconey boxes grinning like toothless old foxes
Saint Peter was watching the action with a dim view of dissatisfaction
He pinned up a sign on the portals: "WE KNOW LONGER TAKE IN IMMORTALS"
Oh you stall the waiter, I'll give the slip, Goethe for certain will hide in the curtain
And think up a jolly good quip
Goethe for certain will hide in the curtain and think up a jolly good quip"