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Bobby Shafto

from Silent Life by Naevus

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He is not secure in this world
Anymore
And if he grips too tightly
He could very easily fall
But it’s not a case of clinging
To his own little place
It is all that is outside
That he must take up arms against

I am his superior and he is my inferior
He is the interior and I am the exterior

He doesn’t need to know
What I have done
He doesn’t need to understand
The poor lost and little one
There is no need for him to reject
The manner of his birth
I will always be ahead of him
I will always get there first

I am his superior and he is my inferior
He is the interior and I am the exterior

Mary had a little lamb
His name was Bobby Shafto
Little Lamby went to sea
Adrift upon a raft-o
Bobby fell into the waves
They drowned the woolly fellow
The last thing that was seen of him
His hair, so curly and yellow

I am his superior and he is my inferior
He is the interior and I am the exterior

The last thing that was seen of him
His hair, so curly and yellow

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from Silent Life, released July 1, 2007
Words by Lloyd James. Music by Joanne Owen, arr. James/Owen/Ferrari/Murphy/Howden.

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Naevus London, UK

Lloyd James: voice, guitar. Ben McLees: bass. Hunter Barr: drums. Sam Astley: guitar.

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