Name: Prince Eugene
Duration: P00H03M51S
Description: Lyrics adapted and arranged from Ben Franklin's "The Drinker's Dictionary"

Prince Eugene

from The Severe Angels by Dave Ihmels

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Lyrics adapted and arranged from Ben Franklin's "The Drinker's Dictionary"

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Here come Prince Eugene
Been too free with the creature

Going to Jerusalem, Been to Jericho,
Been among the Philistines, contending with the Pharaoh
He’s steady, stiff, frozen and thawed
Sampson thumped him on the head with his jawbone

He’s seen the devil, killed his dog,
He’s lordly, light, curved and limber
He’s juicy, oiled, soaked and rich,
And he’s gone before King George

Casting up his accounts
Been to Geneva
Seen the French king, his cousin,
Got corns in his head, pissed in the brook
Kissed black Betty
Makes Virginia fence
In a trance

He’s muddy, muddled, soaked, rattled, jambled
Generous, gold-hearted and glazed,
He’s fishy, foxed, fettered, fuddled, bewitched,
Been to Barbados, and he’s spoken to his friend
He’ got the night mare, he’s loaded his cart,
He’s half way to Concord,
He’s disguised
And he fears NO MAN

Casting up his accounts
Been to Geneva
Seen the French king, his cousin,
Got corns in his head, pissed in the brook
Kissed black Betty
Makes Virginia fence
In a trance

[You’ve been too free with Sir Richard I see,
Been too free with John Strawberry
He’s Cherubimical, cherry merry
Sees a flock of moons, seen the yellow star, been in the sun,
Been to the indian feast and got the vapours, he sees the bears…etc]

Casting up his accounts
Been to Geneva
Seen the French king, his cousin,
Got corns in his head, pissed in the brook
Kissed black Betty
Makes Virginia fence
In a trance

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from The Severe Angels, released November 6, 2015
Dave Ihmels: Vocals and Instruments
Dave Mallen: Electric Bass

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Dave Ihmels Washington, D.C.

I am a performing singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. I write expansive, often experimental, folk-rock music featuring idiosyncratic characters and sonic goodies. I like to put a sparkle around the mundane.

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