Vysotsky - Robin Hood (Ballad of the free archers)
Channel: Mark
Date: 2019-02-08

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if the sons of bitches want to mount your head up on the wall
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and your ambition doesn't stretch to being ten feet tall
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don't risk another moment, take that wanted ass of yours
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and scoot it to the forest, if you have to, on all fours

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  the poor who can't stomach living life down on their knees
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  the morons, who gambled life away like it was free
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  come one, come all, you wretches, take refuge in the wood
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  where the law won't dare to follow, cause who's with us? Robin Hood!

the company is good here, unless your skin is thin
cause shooting shit is all we have, in the shit we're in
and even knights'll you'll find here, a knife in each one's back
cause playing fair has never got them anything but that

  they know all the trails here like the lines of this here song
  cause learning lines is all we have now everything's gone wrong
  come losers, come misfits, come stay where life is good
  put your trust in our brother and our savior, Robin Hood!

so when your life is forfeit, come here where life goes on
pick a tree and call it home, some moss and call it warm
a starry sky's a blanket, there's a river if you bathe
we're all men here, so don't feel pressure to behave

  and sometimes, I know, you'll sigh, for missing all you lost
  don't breathe a word about it, it makes Robin very cross
  he'll pepper you with arrows, till you're screaming "life is good!"
  we've only got one law here: don't get shot by, Robin Hood!

one time Robin shot a man who didn't smile enough
seven hundred times a day, that quota's pretty tough
he hung another when he found him tossing in his sleep
and punched one to death when he said "freedom isn't cheap"

  so make sure that you practice being starry eyed and gay
  you'll really need to sell it if you plan to live all day
  one thing's for sure, old age will never get you in the wood
  who will set you free long before you get there? Robin Hood!