Corkscrew King

Bakatono bakemono henna ojisan

Gamushara sekuhara henna ojisan

The king is in the winter

In the winter of his prime

Welcome to the kingdom

Of the Corkscrew King

See him pour a jet of

Wine across a concubine

See him try in vain to

Plunge the corkscrew in

See him eat sashimi from

A naked woman's breast

See him drink wakame sake from her sex

Send in all the dancing

Girls and send in all the wine

He's impotent omnipotent and only sixty nine

Send in Dr Mojo who can turn back time

Send in more Viagra to halt the decline

When you're sixty nine the sky is overcast

The castle flag is flying half mast

The gate is shut the canon blocked

The flower they fire at one o'clock half cocked

The tower flops the blossom drops

The king will play the shamisen

Bakatono bakemono henna ojisan

Gamushara sekuhara henna ojisan

The Yogi Dr Swami with his hand upon his thing

Guru by appointment to the Corkscrew King

Says A badger in the hand

Is worth a badger in the bush

A badger down your pants

You've got to push push push

An aged man the poet says

Is but a paltry thing

A tattered coat upon a stick unless he sing

So clap your hands for every

Wrinkle in your mortal dress

Join the throng and dance

Along with the Corkscrew King

Send in Dr Mojo who can turn back time

The castle flag is flying and the weather's fine

But when you're sixty nine the sky is overcast

The castle flag is flying half mast

The gate is shut the canon blocked

The flower they fire at one o'clock half cocked

The tower flops the blossom drops

The king will play the shamisen