February112010
But It Never Really Bothers Me
The first time I heard this song I was pretty much mesmerized. As I’ve said before there is nothing I love more than a song that tells a story. This song tell one doozy of a story…
A man who gets married early in life decides, after his wife dies in labor with their 4th child, that he is going to kill the other 3 so that he can start a new life without the bother of motherless children.
I kept saying to myself, “This can’t be right can it? How awful! There is no way that I’m understanding this song correctly!” How could I possibly like a song about such a morbid and horrific thing! I decided to do a little investigating online and I’ll be damned, I was exactly right. But for the past year it hasn’t stopped me from tapping my foot to it every time it comes on the radio. I’m embarrassed to admit I still really, really love it.
Just incase you don’t believe me, see the lyrics below:
I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
And the bells rang for our wedding
Only now do I remember it clear
Alright, alright, alright
No more a rake and no more a bachelor
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
Until her womb started spilling out babies
Only then did I reckon my curse
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
Mercifully taking her mother along
Alright, alright, alright
What can one do when one is a widower
Shamefully saddled with three little pests?
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
So my burden I began to divest
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
Isaiah fought but was easily bested
Burned his body for incurring my wrath
Alright, alright, alright
And that’s how I came your humble narrator
To be living so easy and free
Expect that you think that I should be haunted
But it never really bothers me
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
