Evil Eye

Evil Eye

In a tumble-down of moon-dust

and the rain was falling fast

and a panther started

crawling ‘round the bend

There was Len and there was Cherry

and the Pope was making merry

Signing papal bulls

while chatting to a friend

In a bluster of confusion

down the red-brick colonnade

came a crowd of martyred saints

with all their wives

Life is short, but life is happy:

You can dance, but make it snappy

Or you’ll finish

with a stomach full of knives

Evil Eye, evil oh

Now you see it, now you don’t

Turn it ‘round,

flying down in the mirror

See a glimmer in the watch-glass

and a shimmer in the lens

See the telescopic flashing in the sky

Watch the Moon Man’s ugly sister

Watch the sun and see it blister

See the answer

in the crackling of an eye

Evil Eye, evil oh

‘round the corner watch it go

Asking why live a lie

in the mirror

Evil Eye, evil oh

Leave a lie, live alone

Evil Eye, evil oh

in the mirror

Lyrics Submitted by Richard Gagnon