Let Your Retainers Retain
| Caneus of Illiton |
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Majesties, highnesses, excellencies
A moment of your treasured time if you please, Your valuable work leaves no discrepancies But hear a retainer’s refrain We know you’ve spent most of your healthy careers Doing things for yourselves and not sitting on rears But please, for our own sakes, will you just be dears And let your retainers retain. Let your retainers retain Rely on your well-vetted thanes Attend to the kingdom, sit down on your thing some And let your retainers retain We know that you might feel like some kind of jerk Sitting ‘round while you let someone else do the work But it’s what we signed up for, so back here I’ll lurk Til you give me a task to maintain Bring us an arduously Aegean job Or point to the feast hall and hand us a mop Anything’s better than feeling a slob Can’t you see your retainer’s in pain? Trust me, I get it, my lady, my lord You got here through prowess with art or with sword But throw me a bone here, I’m desperately bored I think I’m going out of my brain Let your retainers retain Rely on your well-vetted thanes Self-reliant and steadfast, I’m losing my head fast Please let your retainers retain? |
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