The Alchemical Worker's Song

By RPM 06.03.14
(filk of Great Big Sea's "The Chemical Worker's Song")

Alchemy Man am I, and I'm telling you no lie:
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky.
There's thunder all around me
And there's poison in the air.
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell
And dust all in me hair.

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And it's go, boys, go.
They'll time your every breath.
And every day you're in this place
You're two days nearer death.
But you go...

Well I work among the cauldrons 
and I breathe the oily smoke.
I shovel up reagents and it nigh makes you choke.
I've stood knee deep in alchemy
Got sick with an arcane burn.
Been working rough, I've seen enough
To make your stomach turn.

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Well there's influence and promised immortality galore.
Young men like their power and they all come back for more.
But soon you're knockin' on
And you look older than you should.
For every potion on the job
You've paid with flesh and blood.

CHORUS

Alchemy Man am I, and I'm telling you no lie:
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky.
There's thunder all around me
And there's poison in the air.
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell
And dust all in me hair.

CHORUS

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Notes from the GM: Rob sent me this before he'd even played in the Caledon world. That's got to be a first. :)