RINGLESS
to the tune of SHAMELESS by Billy Joel
Performed by Garth Brooks
(as sung by Gollum and Frodo)

Saturday, January 22, 2000 by William H. Hsu

GOLLUM:
We're ringless, we're reduced to serving you,
We’ll swear anything you want uss to, by the Precious that we crave.
And we're bound, tied with nassty Elven rope
But they'll take it off, we hope, if we promise to behave...

Now Smeagol leads hobbits through the cold hard lands
And we're bent over crawling on our hands
We don't like seeing the Yellow Face
But at night out come those flying wraiths

We’re ringless, Master, Smeagol is lost,
Every time we sees you crossed, we goes weeping on our knees.
Yes I'm tamed, swore I’d never go to Him
And hunger makes our vision dim, but we're driven by this geas...

You see in all our life we’ve never had
Anything we could keep or that didn't turn bad
We could run away from shining faces in the sky
But we can't run from His great Eye

We have never let anything have this much control over uss,
We only wants to have our Precious back!
Now I’ve made Master an oath
And so far it's been a bust

But we're all doomed now
Why should we care?
We'd better take them to Her lair...
We're ringless!

(INTERLUDE)

FRODO:
You know it sure wasn't easy to fulfill our Quest
But at least now I can get a little rest
I never lost anything I ever rued
But I’d never had my finger chewed...

He mangled my hand, I’m ringless!
I don’t have much power now
Never had much anyhow
Still I couldn't let it go

I’m ringless, got wounded and poisoned too
I feel like a total fool
I just wanted you to know
I’m ringless!

Heyyyy, yeah!
I just wanted you to know
I'm ringless!
Boy am I feeling blue... 

(FADING)
Ringless!
Won't stay (won't stay), too long (too long)... ringless!