Biography:
The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 by singer-songwriter Martyn Jacques and based in London.
Currently Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Adrian Huge (Past member Phil Butcher)
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret. They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy.
The Tiger Lillies were originally buskers, playing songs about the criminals, pimps and whores of Soho, London, England.
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Other songs:
- Arthur
- Open Your Legs
- Overtime
- Start A Fire
- Abort The Child
- Alone With The Moon
- Angel
- Bad
- Bank Robber Blues
- Beat Me
- Billys Blues
- Boatman
- Brick In The Wall
- Cancer
- Cheapest Show
- Circus Clown
- Clown
- Crack Of Doom
- Crude
- Deathless Man
- Deranged
- Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht
- Fisheads
- Freakshow
- Getting Old
- Gonorrhoea
- Gouge My Eyes Out
- Hamsters
- Heaven To Hell
- Hell
- Heroin And Cocaine
- In Love With The Moon
- Interfered With
- Jackies Bar
- Kick A Baby
- Kick A Stick
- Lager Lout
- Maxwell
- Mountains Of Madness
- Mummy
- Murder
- Nightingale
- No Ones Clown
- Old Gracefully
- Picadilly Lilly
- Piss On Your Grave
- Pretty Little Arms
- Pretty Soon
- Punch Judy
- Rapist
- Roll Up
- Rue Dauseil
- Russians
- Same Old Story
- Sick
- Silors
- Snip Snip
- Soho News
- Souvenirs
- Swing Em High
- Terrible
- Tiger Lillie Line
- Violin Time
- Wake Up
- Whore
- Your Suicides
Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Tiger Lillies - Sailors
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And the sailors, they sing sad songs,
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About the sea that eats them whole.
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And the sailors they sing sad songs,
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Food for fishes shoals.
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And the wind it blows inland,
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And the death you can smell.
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Smashed on rocks and smashed on boulders,
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Smashed in living hell.
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And their loved ones wait for hours,
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Await the fate of the cruel sea
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And if loved ones don't return,
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There's no security.
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Just the work-house when they grow old,
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To lay their weary heads,
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And the sound of the sea singing
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Until they are dead.
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And the sea that bears its harvest
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It exacts a heavy toll,
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Mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles,
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With no corpses to behold.
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Sailing out into the darkness,
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Every day of the year.
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Sailing out into the darkness,
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With a prayer, and with fear
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And with fear,
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With a prayer, and with fear.
Cm
And with fear.
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Cm
And the sailors, they sing sad songs,
Fm
About the sea that eats them whole.
Cm
And the sailors they sing sad songs,
Fm
Food for fishes shoals.
Fm
And the wind it blows inland,
Cm
And the death you can smell.
Fm
Smashed on rocks and smashed on boulders,
Cm G
Smashed in living hell.
Cm
And their loved ones wait for hours,
Fm
Await the fate of the cruel sea
Cm
And if loved ones don't return,
Fm
There's no security.
Fm
Just the work-house when they grow old,
Cm
To lay their weary heads,
Fm
And the sound of the sea singing
Cm G
Until they are dead.
Cm
And the sea that bears its harvest
Fm
It exacts a heavy toll,
Cm
Mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles,
Fm
With no corpses to behold.
Fm
Sailing out into the darkness,
Cm
Every day of the year.
Fm
Sailing out into the darkness,
Cm G
With a prayer, and with fear
Cm
And with fear,
G
With a prayer, and with fear.
Cm
And with fear.
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