Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me lyrics

From the courtyard
I floated in and watched it go down
Heard the cup drop, thought, "Well
That's why they keep them around"
The blackguard sat hard down with
No head on him now
And I felt so bad, 'cause I didn't know how
To feel bad enough to make him proud

By the time you read this
I will be so far away daddy Longlegs
How in the world am I to be expected to stay?
In the night, in the night
You may hear me call
Pa, stay your hand and steel your resolve
Stay where you are, so long and tall

Here's Lola ta da! to do her
Famous Spider Dance for you
Lighten up your pockets
Shake her skirts and scatter there


A shrieking, six legged millionaire with a
Blight in his sockets

Miss Montez, the Countess of Lansfeld
Appealed to the King of Bavaria
Saying, "Pretty papa, if you are my friend
Mister Daddy Longlegs, they are at it again
Can I see you?"

Poor Lola, a tarantula's mounting Countess
Lansfeld's handsome brassiere
While they all cheer
And the old king fell from
Grace while Lola fled
To save face and her career

You caught a fly floating by
Wait for him to drown in the dust
Drown in the dust of other flies
Whereby the machine is run and
The deed is done
Heaven has no word for the way you
And your friends have treated poor Louis

May god save your poor soul, Lola
But there is nothing I adore, apart
From that whore's black heart

"Well, doesn't that just beat all!"
Miss Gilbert called to Castlemaine
By the silver dollar and the gold glitter
Well, I've seen lots
But never in a million years
Would think to see you here

Though the long road begins and ends with you
I cannot seem to make amends with you, Louis
When we go out
They're bound to see you with me

At night, I walk in the park with a whip
Between the lines of the whispering Jesuit's
Who are poisoning you against me
There's a big black spider
Hanging over my door
Can't go anywhere anymore
Tell me, are you with me?

I called to you several times
While the change took place and
Then arrived all night and I died
But all these songs
When you and I are long gone
Will carry on, mud in your eye

You asked my hand, hired a band
"In your heart is all that you need
Ask and you will receive, " it is said
I threw my bouquet and I knocked 'em dead

Bottle of white, bottle of red
Helpless as a child when you
Held me in your arms
And I knew that no other could
Ever love me as you loved
Love me as you loved, but help me
I'm leaving

I remember everything
Down to the sound of you shaving
The scrape of your razor
The dully-abrading black hair that remained
When you clutched at me

That night I came upstairs, half-dead
And in your kindness, you put me straightaway
In the cupboard with a bottle of champagne
And then, later, on a train, it was dark out
I was half-dead
I saw a star fall into the sky
Like a chunk of thrown coal
As if god himself spat like a cornered rat
I really want you to do this for me
Will you have one on me?

It was dark, I was drunk and half-dead
And we slept, knocking heads
Sitting up in the star-smoking air
Knocking heads like buoys
Don't you worry for me
Will you have one on me!

Meanwhile, I will raise my own glass
To how you made me fast and expendable
And I will drink to your excellent health
And your cruelty, will you have one on me?

Helpless as a child when you
Held me in your arms
And I knew that no other could ever love me

Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh, ooh oh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh ooh

From the courtyard
I floated in and watched it go down
Heard the cup drop, thought, "Well
That's why they keep them around"
The blackguard sat hard down with
No head on him now
And I felt so bad, 'cause I didn't know how
To feel bad enough to make him proud

Well daddy longlegs, are you?
Daddy longlegs, are you?
Daddy longlegs, are you proud?