The Lady Patroness (La Dame Patronesse)

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lyrics

To be a good lady patroness
You must remain vigilant
For as we see from history
The poor want to overthrow the nobility

And a stitch inside out
And a stitch the right side up
A stitch for St Joseph
A stitch for St Thomas

To be a good lady patroness
You must manage your own charity
The Duke Elbeuf knew it through and through
From the old, we must fashion the new

To be a good lady patroness
You must be very very careful
And when you let the peasants in your house
You must check them on their way out

To be a good lady patroness
You must be kind, but never weak
And so I had to cross of my list
A poor girl who was seeing a Socialist

To be a good lady patroness
Knit your donations in the colour of goose shit
And then at church you can survey all the pews
To see the peasants that belong to you

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from Collecting Brel - Vol. 2, released March 1, 2019

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