Songwriter: Rupert Holmes
What reason could I have to ever want Drood dead?
Why would I want to harm a hair upon his head?
But I'm the candidate you rowdy lot have chose -
And so my motives now I fear I must disclose
After Jasper laid his nephew in the crypt, he fled!
With quarts of port, to Drood I drank a toast
When I heard him moaning, groaning, in my drunken head
I thought Drood was a ghost!
Then
He started screamin'
Just like a demon -
It was a dreadful cry!
Drunken stiff, my mind did hear it
As a different kind of spirit
So I bashed him, smashed him. .
The murderer am I!
Much thanks, goodbye!
Why would I want to harm a hair upon his head?
But I'm the candidate you rowdy lot have chose -
And so my motives now I fear I must disclose
After Jasper laid his nephew in the crypt, he fled!
With quarts of port, to Drood I drank a toast
When I heard him moaning, groaning, in my drunken head
I thought Drood was a ghost!
Then
He started screamin'
Just like a demon -
It was a dreadful cry!
Drunken stiff, my mind did hear it
As a different kind of spirit
So I bashed him, smashed him. .
The murderer am I!
Much thanks, goodbye!
more tracks from the album
From the album
Rupert Holmes popular songs
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
- Weekend Lover
- Bagdad
- The O’Brien Girl
- Him (single edit)
- Annabella
- Special Thanks
- Cold
- Soap Opera
- Let’s Get Crazy Tonight
- You’ll Love Me Again
- Speechless
- Answering Machine
- Brass Knuckles
- I Don’t Need You
- Our National Pastime
- Partners in Crime
- Full Circle
- Morning Man
- Everything Gets Better When You’re Drunk
- Second Saxophone
- Phantom of the Opera
- Letters That Cross in the Mail
- Talk