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Sailor's Hornpipe
Mike Oldfield
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The hallway
From the outside, an ordinary house
A great house, true
Four hundred and eighty three rooms
Each one with its own marble wash
Basin and douche, bidet as it may
But inside, and the positions are reversed
A human failing, some say a disease, but a disease
That Sir Francis Dashwood knew, and knew it well
Upstairs, inside and a revelation it's a discotheque
No, uh. There are paintings, real, and look here
A rare seventeenth century masterpiece
And if I can scrape a little of it off, beneath I can find a hidden
A fourteenth century underpiece
Made entirely of tiny pieces of eggshell
This lurid work has caused controversy in the world
Of embroidery and anthropologicky
No, I'll say it again, anthropolology
Umm. no quite possibly make an anthropol
No, uh, I mean an apolog.ph
It has enthralled distinguished professors
And in layman's language is "blinking well baffling"
But to be more obtusely, "buggered if I know."
Yes, "buggered if I know."
And that's all we've gleaned so far from experts
In fourteenth century painting, renaissance, greengrocers
And recently revived members of the public
"Buggered if I know." Vivian Stanshall
About three o' clock in the morning
Oxfordshire, 1973. Good night
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