Rakes, rakes, good for the skin, if you like tattoos then you'll want to apply a rake to your shin
Rakes are great, I've got three – I use them to scrape the lawn and scare away that big bee
Rakes are my life, I've got ten – I like to sway them in the sun, break a few moves and chase that stupid hen
Rakes.
Rakes.
I've got a really big rake that I call Ben, I keep it in my crack den, it's got twenty tendrils that I stare at and stroke now and then
I've got a small rake called Toby, he thinks he's Moby, covering Mission of Burma and making dance music, he's changed his style a few times but it always stays the same, really, he's not the best but I keep him out for show
Rakes, rakes, good for the skin, if you like tattoos then you'll want to apply a rake to your shin
I rake into a pile and the pile piles high
the rakey piles pile so highly high up in the sky
The leaves are all together and the piles are all woah
they are all in such big piles and those piles will just grow
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 start 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 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 you think that I should be haunted
But it never really bothers me
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright