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Mad Tom of Bedlam
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An eerily journey through the minds of madness.
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Seattle's hard stompin' Celtic rock. Ockham's Razor has been called Seattle's premier Irish band.
Ockham’s Razor is a Seattle based Celtic fusion band that blends influences of Celtic and Irish tradition with rock, pop, gypsy, punk, jazz, bluegrass, and folk elements to carve out a unique and indelible niche in the Celtic folk genre. Hailed as both “Turbo Celtic” and “Ethno Punk,” since 2006 Ockham’s Razor has performed with notable bands like Young Dubliners, Enter the Haggis and Paperboys, and has even performed alongside Irish music luminaries, the Chieftains. With two studio albums and a live album under their belt, their music has been featured on radio and podcasts in places as far flung as India and Australia as well as the US, Canada, and the rest of North America, England, Scotland, Ireland and the rest of Europe. They have been featured on the Portland OR based PDXPosed and Alaska Airline’s In Flight Entertainment Channel, Next Stop. *********
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Genre
World • World Fusion
Charts
Peak #105
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
traditional
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Ockham's Razor Music 2006
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November 07, 2007
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:00
Story behind the song
The term "Tom O' Bedlam" was used in Early Modern Britain and later to describe beggars and vagrants who had or feigned mental illness. It was assumed they were former inmates at the Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam). "Tom O' Bedlam" was an anonymous poem written circa 1600. It was a popular enough ballad that another poem was written in reply, "Mad Maudlin's Search" or "Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam".
Lyrics
For to see Mad Tom of Bedlam Ten thousand miles I've traveled Mad Maudelyn goes on dirty toes To save her shoes from gravel It's well that we sing bonnie boys, Bonnie mad boys Bedlam boys are bonnie For they all go bare And they live in the air And they want no drink or money My staff has murdered giants My pack a long knife carries To cut mince pies From children's thighs With which to feed the faeries Tonight I'll go a murdering The man in the moon to a powder His staff I'll break His dog I'll shake And there'll howl no demon louder I'll go down to Satan's kitchen For to break my fast this morning There I'll eat souls, piping hot All from the spits a-turning
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