There Is Beauty… - Richard Thompson

There is beauty in the bellow of the blast\nThere is grandeur in the growling of the gale\nThere is eloquent outpouring\nWhen the lion is a-roaring\nAnd the tiger is a-lashing of his tail!\nYes, I like to see a tiger\nFrom the Congo or the Niger\nAnd especially when lashing of his tail!\nVolcanoes have a splendour that is grim\nAnd earthquakes only terrify the dolts\nBut to him who’s scientific\nThere’s nothing that’s terrific\nIn the falling of a flight of thunderbolts!\nYes, in spite of all my meekness\nIf I have a little weakness\nIt’s a passion for a flight of thunderbolts!\nIf that is so\nSing derry down derry!\nIt’s evident, very\nOur tastes are one\nAway we’ll go\nAnd merrily marry\nNor tardily tarry\n'Til day is done!\nThere is beauty in extreme old age\nDo you fancy you are elderly enough?\nInformation I’m requesting\nOn a subject interesting:\nIs a maiden all the better when she’s tough?\nThroughout this wide dominion\nIt’s the general opinion\nThat she’ll last a good deal longer when she’s tough\nAre you old enough to marry, do you think?\nWon’t you wait till you are eighty in the shade?\nThere’s a fascination frantic\nIn a ruin that’s romantic;\nDo you think you are sufficiently decayed?\nTo the matter that you mention\nI have given some attention\nAnd I think I am sufficiently decayed\nIf that is so\nSing derry down derry!\nIt’s evident, very\nOur tastes are one\nAway we’ll go\nAnd merrily marry\nNor tardily tarry\n'Til day is done!\nIf that is so\nSing derry down derry!\nIt’s evident, very\nOur tastes are one\nAway we’ll go\nAnd merrily marry\nNor tardily tarry\n'Til day is done!\nSing derry down derry!\nWe’ll merrily marry\nNor tardily tarry\n'Til day is done!