Vidalia - Andrew Bird

There was a time when I enjoyed vidalia

there was no other fruit I dared my lips to touch

my grandad he prescribed vidalia

«for whatever ails ya" — heart disease, the grippe and such

But to yourself this medicine you’ll properly expose

the benefits of health, wealth, and respect

Eat it like an apple of a deep-colored rose

sweet victory will be yours to delect

But how my palate grows tired

so sweet, so sweet, so sweet

no thanks I’ll take defeat

I remember a dark and smoky den

Cheeks of roast beef bloody rare

Oh, whiskey-edged faces of barrel-chested men

And I’m feelin' small, weak and scared

I remember that nook, the way I shook

pain hurts innocence be damned

red with shame and red with pain

we all sit down to eat our leg of lamb

our leg of lamb…

we all sit down to eat our leg of lamb