ฟังเพลงShingling the Rum Seller's Roof

Shingling the Rum Seller's Roof - Joe Hickerson

One night a poor wretch in a wayside saloon

Was lingering half drunken about

Heard the voice of the rum seller's wife as she said

Go put yonder drunken fool out

The rum seller smiling he made this reply

In a voice that would brook no reproof

Let him stay if he wants he is doing no harm

The fellow is shingling our roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

While your own house decays are you spending your days

Just shingling the rum seller's roof

The months passed by and he did not return

The rum seller noted with pain

So seeking him out with hospitable air

He asked his old friend to explain

You want me to visit again your saloon

And ask why I linger aloof

With thanks for your kindness this answer I'll give

Because I've been shingling your roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

While your own house decays are you spending your days

Just shingling the rum seller's roof

All ye who are shingling the rum seller's roof

And robbing yourselves and your own

Remember the winter of life draweth nigh

And soon will the summer have flown

'Twill be no avail in the day of God's wrath

To offer high heaven the proof

That your own house is desolate only because

You've shingled the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

While your own house decays are you spending your days

Just shingling the rum seller's roof

And woe to the man with the rum seller's heart

Who covers himself at the cost

Of mankind and womankind marred and despoiled

Whose gain is that others are lost

On the day when his roof around him shall fall

And the weight of his sins bear the proof

And the lost he has ruined shall crush him and cry

We shingled the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

Are you shingling the rum seller's roof

While your own house decays are you spending your days

Just shingling the rum seller's roof