Chim Chimney
Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Cheree
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be
Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Cheroo
Good luck will rub off when I shakes 'ands with you
Or blow me a kiss--and that's lucky, too!
Now as the ladder of life 'as been strung
You might think a sweep's on the bottommost rung
Though I spend me time in the ashes and smoke
In this whole wide world there's no 'appier bloke
I choose me bristles with pride, yes I do
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flue
Though I'm covered in soot, from me head to me toes
A sweep knows he's welcome wherever he goes
Up where the smoke is all billered and curled
'Tween pavement and sky is the chimney-sweep world
Where there's 'ardly no day, nor 'ardly no night
There's things 'alf in shadow, and 'alfway in light
On the rooftops of London--Coo! What a sight.
Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Cheree
When you're with a sweep you're in glad company
Nowhere is there a more 'appier crew
Then them wot sings Chim Chim Cheree, Chim Cheroo
Chim Chiminy Chim Chim, Cheree Chim Cheroo
Ceux qui ont apparié notre vie à un songe ont eu de la raison...Nous veillons dormants et veillants dormons. -Montaigne
Intro
O full-orb'd moon, did but thy rays
Their last upon mine anguish gaze!
Beside this desk, at dead of night,
Oft have I watched to hail thy light:
Then, pensive friend! o'er book and scroll,
With soothing power, thy radiance stole!
In thy dear light, ah, might I climb,
Freely, some mountain height sublime,
Round mountain caves with spirits ride,
In thy mild haze o'er meadows glide,
And, purged from knowledge-fumes, renew
My spirit, in thy healing dew!
Goethe: Faust I.
Friday, August 19, 2011
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