Fable of the Brown Ape-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:Fable of the Brown Ape] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus] [offset:0] [00:01.96]Farmer Emmerich went into his barn [00:05.39]And found a cow suckling a serpent [00:08.44] [00:09.06]And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain [00:12.26] [00:13.19]Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape [00:17.25]Never ask me to come into this barn again [00:23.55] [00:31.21]So Long [00:32.78] [00:39.89]Farmer Emmerich caught the serpent [00:43.47]And the brown ape in a cage [00:46.40] [00:47.11]And took them into his house [00:49.41] [00:50.33]He fed the snake a vat of milk [00:53.08] [00:53.90]And when the ape rattled its chain [00:57.10] [00:57.67]He tossed the ape a mouse [01:01.49] [01:08.99]So Long [01:12.35] [01:17.86]The villagers found out that Farmer Emmerich [01:21.87]Was nurturing a serpent [01:24.78] [01:25.35]And descended upon his farm [01:27.44] [01:28.32]All rabid in their blindness [01:31.80] [01:32.63]They dragged the snake outside [01:34.83] [01:35.49]Chopped it open with an axe [01:38.36] [01:39.10]And the ground soaked [01:40.71]In the milk of human kindness [01:47.89] [01:53.92]So Long [01:57.38] [02:03.32]But the brown ape escaped [02:05.50] [02:06.64]And was heard to roam the ranges [02:10.06] [02:10.68]Clanking its heavy chain [02:13.12] [02:14.14]Down in the valley it sang to its friend [02:19.89] [02:20.83]Whom he may never see again