Brendan the Card Maker Lyrics

Young Brendan said that he wanted to be a card maker

But when he told his father he said he would go nowhere

First customer was for a man who's wife was 41

He made the card and it was nice but he wrote her name wrong

Man came back and he was angry wanted a refund

Screamed and shouted said it's not hard to spell Siobhan

Young Brendan cried he said it's not his fault he's only young

He's still in school and he's still learning multiplication

The man accepts the deal where he would make another one

Go Brendan go Go Brendan go Go Brendan

Make those cards

Go Brendan go Go Brendan go

I know that you'll go far

Go Brendan go Go Brendan go Go Brendan

You know I

Will buy your cards

Few years later you could say he'd sold a few more cards

He's moving house and driving around a fancy new car

The reason people buy them and why they are successful

Is cause every single card has the name on the front spelled wrong

You can buy them for your birthday or when kids are born

They're good for everything except maybe a funeral

Brendan was happy he'd proved everyone wrong

Go Brendan Go Brendan

Go Brendan Go Brendan

Brendan you're getting old

You're broke and going home

But what I wanna know

Is where will you go

So Brendan's cards they are a bust they're making no money

He can't afford to pay his bills he's living on the streets

Stays in a shelter put beside a man he's younger than

He starts a conversation, tells him that his name is Ben

He tells our good friend Brendan that his lovely wife is dead

Brendan wonders how she died but asks her name instead

And when the man replied the word filled him with dread

Siobhan