Songtext von A Barber And His Wife

There was a barber and his wife And she was beautiful A foolish barber and his wife She was his reason and his life And she was beautiful And she was virtuous And he was Naive There was another man who saw That she was beatuiful A pious vulture of the law Who, with a gesture of his claw Removed the barber from his plate Then there was nothing but to wait And she would fall So soft, so young, so lost And, oh, so beautiful And the lady sir Did she succumb? Oh, that was many years ago I doubt if anyone would know