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Babushka-Yai Ya

by Fionn Regan

on The Meetings of the Waters (2017)

He caught one, I see the dover from the corner of a sovereign ring [?]
He was dancing on the table when the bouncer took his swing

[Chorus]
And the jukebox went Babushka-Yai Ya
He was drinking down that Stolichnaya
Rabbiting like a gun in a tower
Comes in waves in a tsunami

Living the life on the culls of danger
Did you go home with a complete stranger?
Chopping out lies in the back of a manger
[?]
In the back of the car down by the sea

[Chorus]
And the jukebox went Babushka-Yai Ya
He was drinking down that Stolichnaya
Your father's son in the mother tongue
Babushka, Babushka, Babushka-Yai Ya

Looking for our hands like castenetas
Sitting in a circle like Geneva
With the Berlin Wall falling in her head
On the Mexican day of the dead
Say a loyal hound never leaves his master's
Grave
Stay with him if he falls underneath this wave

When the jukebox went Babushka-Yai Ya
He was drinking down that Stolichnaya
She sees a cross at the window
On the Mexican day of the dead