FILK: When a DE's not Engaged in His Employment

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 35927

Elkins walks in wearing a police uniform, followed by HPFGUers, 
similarily attired.

Elkins: Grey. I tell you. Grey. Snape liked his death-eater friends.

Chorus: That makes a difference, of course. At the same time, we 
repeat, we cannot understand it at all.

Elkins: No matter. Our course is clear. We must to do our best to 
devise bloody ambushes for them all. It is most distressing to us to 
be the agents whereby our erring fellow-creatures are deprived of that 
life and sanity which is so dear to us all-- but we should have 
thought of that before we became Potter fans.

Chorus: We should! 

Elkins: It is too late now!

Chorus: It is!

Elkins: When a DE's not engaged in his employment
Chorus: His employment

Elkins: Or maturing his felonious little plans,
Chorus:Little plans,

Elkins: His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Chorus: 'Cent enjoyment

Elkins: Is just as great as any honest man's.
Chorus: Honest man's.

Elkins: Our feelings we with difficulty smother
Chorus: 'Culty smother

Elkins: When bloodythirsty speculation's to be done.
Chorus: To be done.

Elkins: Ah, take one consideration with another,
Chorus: With another,

Elkins: A FEATHERBOA's lot is not a happy one.
Chorus: Ah, when bloodythirsty speculation's to be done, to be done.
A FEATHERBOA's lot is not a happy one. 

Elkins:When the evil Ms. Lestrange is not a-killing
Chorus: Not a-killing

Elkins: When her husband isn't sending Frank insane.
Chorus: Frank insane.

Elkins: Outside, to song bird's notes they sit a-thrilling
Chorus: Sit a-thrilling.

Elkins: And stroll together down a lover's lane.
Chorus: Lover's lane. 

Elkins: When Crouch Jr.'s finished driving mad the mother.
Chorus:Mad the mother.

Elkins: He loves to give encouragement to her son.
Chorus: To her son.

Elkins: Ah, take one consideration with another,
Chorus:With another.

Elkins:A FEATHERBOA's lot is not a happy one.
Chorus: Ah, when bloodythirsty speculation's to be done, to be done, 
A FEATHERBOA's lot is not a happy one, happy one.

All:(marching off) Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara! 
Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara! 
Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara! Tarantara! 
Tarantara! Tarantara!

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Apologies to Elkins and my other fellow FEATHERBOAS.

Eileen