The Armadillo-Flanders & Swann

[ti:The Armadillo] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:The Complete Flanders & Swann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Armadillo (犰狳) - Flanders & Swann [00:40.56]I was taking compass bearings for the Ordinance Survey [00:45.02]On an army training camp on Salisbury plain [00:48.83]I had packed up my theodolite was calling it a day [00:53.00]When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain: [01:02.66]'Oh my darling Armadillo [01:05.93]Let me tell you of my love [01:08.69]Listen to my Armadillo roundelay; [01:13.38]Be my fellow on my pillow [01:16.05]Underneath this weeping willow [01:19.04]Be my darling Armadillo all the day ' [01:31.80]I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair [01:35.77]For a single Armadillo you will own [01:38.96]On Salisbury plain on summer is comparatively rare [01:43.16]And a pair of them is practically unknown [01:46.99]Drawn by that mellow solo [01:49.43]There I followed on my bike [01:51.68]To discover what these Armadillo [01:53.77]Lovers would be like: [01:57.76]'Oh my darling Armadillo [02:01.09]How delightful it would be [02:03.38]If for us those silver wedding bells would chime [02:08.07]Let the orange blossoms billow [02:10.83]You need only say 'I will'-oh [02:12.66] [02:14.21]Be my darling Armadillo all the time ' [02:18.98]Then I saw them in a hollow by a yellow muddy bank - [02:23.30]An Armadillo singing to an armour-plated tank [02:34.79]Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above [02:39.18]This - abandoned on manoeuvres - is the object of your love [02:50.30]I left him to his singing [02:52.77]Cycled home without a pause [02:55.94]Never tell a man the truth [02:58.54]About the one that he adores [03:04.34]On the breeze that follows sunset [03:07.72]I could hear that sad refrain [03:10.67]Singing willow willow willow down the way; [03:15.86]And I seemed to hear it still Oh [03:19.22]Vive L'amore vive l'Armadillo [03:22.90]'Be my darling Armadillo all the day [03:28.96]Be my darling Armadillo all the day '