The genius of the shire Lyrics

He Shoulders his pedantry
Like a cassock 'gainst the gales,
Beguiling with his rhetoric
Or imbecilic tales.
To some he is a laureate
An aesthete in desire,
A capricious dilettante is
The genius of the shire.

Blatantly priggish,
Perverter of lore,
Loquacious with anecdote
And paltry metaphor.
With studied innuendo,
A demeanour they admire,
That ostentatious peacock - who is
Genius of the shire.

But haughtiness and mocking
Will bring him to his knees,
He shoulders his pedantry
Yet shivers in the breeze.